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Since its creation in 1925, the s welcomed dozens of thousands foreign students of the university of Paris. Despite the building of new houses and rooms, the CIUP was never able to admit the growing number of applicants. In order to select them, they were asked to send more and more complex application files. This paper focuses on a rarely investigated document of these files: the cover letters that were requested from the applicants from WWII and on. In this paper, I try to identify the arguments used by the applicants by answering a series of question on their strategy of self-presentation and on the reading process of the letters. What students were seeking at the CIUP? What kind of residents did the CIUP target? How did applicants perceive the institution’s expectations? By whom and how were the letters read? Cover letters thus offer a good observatory of the strategies of attractiveness implemented by the CIUP as well as the way the applicants tried to play with them.

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Choose Paris: Letters in support of application to the Paris’ Cité Universitaire in the 1950s

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  • Antonin Durand

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Since its creation in 1925, the s welcomed dozens of thousands foreign students of the university of Paris. Despite the building of new houses and rooms, the CIUP was never able to admit the growing number of applicants. In order to select them, they were asked to send more and more complex application files. This paper focuses on a rarely investigated document of these files: the cover letters that were requested from the applicants from WWII and on. In this paper, I try to identify the arguments used by the applicants by answering a series of question on their strategy of self-presentation and on the reading process of the letters. What students were seeking at the CIUP? What kind of residents did the CIUP target? How did applicants perceive the institution’s expectations? By whom and how were the letters read? Cover letters thus offer a good observatory of the strategies of attractiveness implemented by the CIUP as well as the way the applicants tried to play with them.