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Lycée Français René Cassin D'Oslo
''Lycée Français René Cassin d'Oslo'' ( no, Den Franske skolen i Oslo) is a French international school in Oslo, Norway. The school serves the levels preschool through the final year of ''lycée'', ''terminale'' (high school). The school originated from the Vestheim School (''Vestheim skole''), founded by five people in 1891: Frederik Fredriksen, Nils Grøterud, Wilhelm Myhre, Hans H. K. Hougen, and Ole Jacobe Skattum. In 2017 the Norwegian state gave NOK 4 million to the school because it needed funding to pay for new teachers and school supplies.Bienvenue au 50 ème anniversaire du Lycée René Cassin d’Oslo Velkommen til det 50. jubileumet til Den Franske Skolen i Oslo ''Lycée Français René Cassin d'Oslo''. Retrieved on 23 March 2015.ArchiveODP version [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Cassin
René Samuel Cassin (5 October 1887 – 20 February 1976) was a French jurist known for co-authoring the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. Born in Bayonne, Cassin served as a soldier in the First World War during which he was seriously wounded. On 24 June 1940, during the Second World War, Cassin heeded General Charles de Gaulle's radio appeal and joined him in London. Cassin used his legal expertise to help de Gaulle's Free French. Between 1944 and 1959, Cassin was a member of the Council of State. Seconded to the UN Commission on Human Rights after the war, he was a major contributor to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. For that work, he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968. The same year, he was awarded one of the UN General Assembly's Human Rights Prizes. Early life Cassin was born in Bayonne on 5 October 1887, to a Sephardi Jewish family. He grew up in Nice, where he attended the , and graduated with a b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oslo
Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of in 2019, and the metropolitan area had an estimated population of in 2021. During the Viking Age the area was part of Viken. Oslo was founded as a city at the end of the Viking Age in 1040 under the name Ánslo, and established as a ''kaupstad'' or trading place in 1048 by Harald Hardrada. The city was elevated to a bishopric in 1070 and a capital under Haakon V of Norway around 1300. Personal unions with Denmark from 1397 to 1523 and again from 1536 to 1814 reduced its influence. After being destroyed by a fire in 1624, during the reign of King Christian IV, a new city was built closer to Akershus Fortress and named Christiania in honour of the king. It became a municipality ('' formannskapsdistrikt'') on 1 January 1838. The city fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a dependency of Norway; it also lays claims to the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. The capital and largest city in Norway is Oslo. Norway has a total area of and had a population of 5,425,270 in January 2022. The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden at a length of . It is bordered by Finland and Russia to the northeast and the Skagerrak strait to the south, on the other side of which are Denmark and the United Kingdom. Norway has an extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea. The maritime influence dominates Norway's climate, with mild lowland temperatures on the se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France–Norway Relations
France–Norway relations are foreign relations between France and Norway. Both countries established diplomatic relations in 1905, after Norway's independence. Both countries are full members of NATO, and of the Council of Europe. There are around 2,000 Norwegian people living in France and around 3,571 French people living in Norway. Both nations have Territorial claims in Antarctica, and mutually recognise each other's claims, as well as those from the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia. Education There are two French international schools in Norway: * Lycée Français René Cassin d'Oslo * Lycée Français de Stavanger Resident diplomatic missions * France has an embassy in Oslo. * Norway has an embassy in Paris. File:Drammensveien 69 - 2009-05-13 at 19-21-48.jpg, Embassy of France in Oslo File:28 rue Bayard.jpg, Building hosting the Embassy of Norway in Paris File:Norwegian embassy in Paris.jpg, Residence of the Embassy of Norway in Paris See also * Fore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lycée Français De Stavanger
Lycée Français de Stavanger is a French international school in Stavanger, Norway. It was founded in 1972. As of 2015 it served ''maternelle'' (preschool) through the second year of ''lycée'' (senior high school). " . Retrieved on April 30, 2015. It closed in 2019 https://ee.mlfmonde.org/stavanger-lycee-francais/fermeture-du-lycee-francais-de-stavanger/ See also * * |
Schools In Oslo
A school is an educational institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes compulsory. In these systems, students progress through a series of schools. The names for these schools vary by country (discussed in the '' Regional terms'' section below) but generally include primary school for young children and secondary school for teenagers who have completed primary education. An institution where higher education is taught is commonly called a university college or university. In addition to these core schools, students in a given country may also attend schools before and after primary (elementary in the U.S.) and secondary (middle school in the U.S.) education. Kindergarten or preschool provide some schooling to very young children (typically ages 3–5). University, vocational school, college or seminary may be ava ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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