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Just up the street but worlds away from the bustle of the Alliance Française is the Institut Catholique de Paris, a private Catholic university with a reputable language program. Within the university lies the Institut de Langue et de Culture Françaises, formed in 1948 with just 15 students and now educating about 3,000 students a year. The Institut Catholique offers a quiet, serious, but convivial learning atmosphere-a middle ground between the challenges of the Sorbonne and the rough-and-tumble of Alliance Française.
The language program has 45 teachers and class sizes range between 18 and 25 students. The largest group of students here come from Japan, with Germany and Poland close behind. Director Jean-René Rouquette says that when the program started, most students only took classes six hours a week but since then the school has changed its approach, f....
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