Lycée Français d'Alicante

Lycée Français d'Alicante Pierre Deschamps (LFA; Spanish: Liceo Francés de Alicante) is a French international school in El Campello, Alicante Province, Spain.[1] It serves maternelle/educación infantil (preschool) through lycée/bachillerato.[2]

As of 2016 the main campus, which is adjacent to Villa Marco, has about 1,300 students. This campus is 20 hectares (49 acres) large.[3]

The École française Pablo-Picasso, an annex of the Lycée Français d'Alicante, is located in Benidorm.[4]

History

The school, which opened in 1962, was established by pied-noir people leaving Algeria.[3] In the aftermath of the Independence of Algeria large numbers of pied-noirs settled in Alicante,[5] leading to the establishment of the new French school.[6]

It was initially inside an apartment building on Calle San Vicente. Until 1965 the school occupied a building in Alicante. That year it moved to a different building in Vistahermosa, Alicante. In 1970 it moved again to Albufereta, Alicante.[3] Several pied-noirs had moved to Albufereta; 65 of them lived there in 1965. By 2001 French-speakers had a lot of influence in Albufereta and French was commonly spoken there.[7]

In 2005 the school moved into its current location in El Campello.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Home page. Lycée Français d'Alicante. Retrieved on 30 April 2015. "Camino de Marco, 21 (03560) El Campello – Alicante "
  2. ↑ "El colegio." Lycée Français d'Alicante. Retrieved on 30 April 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Histoire"/"Historia / Quiénes somos." Lycée Français d'Alicante. Retrieved on 29 September 2016.
  4. ↑ "Les données de la zone Europe Ibérique." AEFE. Retrieved on May 7, 2015.
  5. ↑ Kidd, William. "The Long Good-Bye: Pied Noir Re-Settlement in the Pyrénées-Orientales" (Chapter 2). In: Gemie, Sharif and Scott Soo (editors). Coming Home? Vol. 2: Conflict and Postcolonial Return Migration in the Context of France and North Africa, 1962-2009, Volume 2 (EBSCO ebook academic collection). Cambridge Scholars Publishing, July 18, 2014. ISBN 1443864161, 9781443864169. Start: 33. CITED: p. 38.
  6. ↑ Kidd, William. "The Long Good-Bye: Pied Noir Re-Settlement in the Pyrénées-Orientales" (Chapter 2). In: Gemie, Sharif and Scott Soo (editors). Coming Home? Vol. 2: Conflict and Postcolonial Return Migration in the Context of France and North Africa, 1962-2009, Volume 2 (EBSCO ebook academic collection). Cambridge Scholars Publishing, July 18, 2014. ISBN 1443864161, 9781443864169. Start: 33. CITED: p. 49. (See footnote 34 which refers to page 38)
  7. ↑ Sempere Souvannavong, Juan David. "Les pieds-noirs à Alicante" (PDF; PDF Archive). Revue européenne des migrations internationales. Vol. 17, n°3,2001. pp. 173-198. doi : 10.3406/remi.2001.1800. CITED: p. 189 (PDF p. 20/29), Albufereta identified on the previous page.

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