Lycée Français d'Alicante Pierre Deschamps [fr] (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]

Lycée Français d'Alicante
Liceo Francés de Alicante
Address
Main: Camino de Marco, 21 / Camí de Marco, 21 (03560) El Campello – Alicante
Picasso School: Finca Barrina - Norte, apt 2 - 16 Carretera de Callosa / Avinguda Callosa D'Ensarrià 03502 Benidorm
Information
Websitemlfalicante.org

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] It is inside the Finca Barrina - Norte complex.[5] But closed in 2018.

Lycée Français d'Alicante is located in Province of Alicante
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École Pablo Picasso
École Pablo Picasso

History

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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,[6] leading to the establishment of the new French school.[7]

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 [es], Alicante. In 1970 it moved again to Albufereta [es], 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.[8]

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

See also

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References

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  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. ^ a b c d "Histoire"/"Historia / Quiénes somos." Lycée Français d'Alicante. Retrieved on 29 September 2016.
  4. ^ "Les données de la zone Europe Ibérique Archived 2015-09-25 at the Wayback Machine." AEFE. Retrieved on May 7, 2015.
  5. ^ "Centros enseñanza." CCI FRANCE ESPAGNE. Retrieved on January 5, 2017. "École française de Benidorm (Anexo del Lycée français d’Alicante) Carretera de Callosa, 16 Finca Barrina - Norte, apt 2 03502 Benidorm "
  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. 38.
  7. ^ 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)
  8. ^ 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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