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during the

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. It was chartered by the French (the

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) and Belgian governments-in-exile and located at the

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. Its founders included

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, and Gustave Cohen, and it was supported by the

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. The philosopher Jacques Maritain, anthropologist

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, historian

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, and linguist

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all taught at the École Libre. According to Louis Menand, in ''The Free World'' (p. 203) it was started in 1942 through the efforts of Alvin Johnson, co-founder and director of

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* Aristide R. Zolberg, "The Ecole Libre at the New School 1941–1946", ''Social Research'', Winter 1998
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* Menand, Louis. ''The Free World'' (p. 203). Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Universities and colleges in New York City School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences {{Manhattan-school-stub

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