Cité internationale universitaire de Paris (CiuP, Cité U) is a private park and foundation located in Paris, France. Since 1925, it has provided general and public services, including the maintenance of several dozen residences housing around 6,000 students and visiting academics in the Île-de-France region. Officially recognized as a foundation of public interest, the CIUP promotes exchanges between students from around the world in a spirit of tolerance. History The CIUP was established after World War I by André Honnorat, rector at the Sorbonne, in cooperation with Émile Deutsch de la Meurthe, in order to create a meeting place for students, researchers and intellectuals from around the world in a spirit of peace, unity and friendly cooperation. The CIUP was originally built for the University of Paris, hence its name appears in several of its buildings, notably the Maison Internationale. Several CIUP structures have been designed by architects of note, such as Le Corbusier, Willem Marinus Dudok, Heydar Ghiai and Claude Parent. The residences are organized mostly by nationality, although residents in each maison are not necessarily from the countries implied by building names. Up to 30%-50% of the student residents in each residence may come from different nationalities. In 2006, students of 132 different nationalities lived in the Cité Internationale. In the early 21st century, the CIUP acquired two residences outside its original perimeter, in the 19th arrondissement of Paris. Location Located in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, the CIUP is bounded to the south by the Boulevard Périphérique, the busy ring road encircling Paris, and to the north (in part) by the 38-acre Parc Montsouris. Residences Former residents Marcos Aguinis (Fondation Argentine) Joaquim Pedro de Andrade (Maison du Brésil) Azorin (Collège d'Espagne) Miguel Angel Pol Pot, (Indochinese Pavilion, now the Maison de l’Asie du sud-est) Fernando Arrabal (Collège d'Espagne) Pío Baroja (Collège d'Espagne) Raymond Barre Steven James Bartlett (Maison du Mexique) Manuel Bartlett Díaz (Maison du Mexique) Tahar Ben Jelloun (Maison de Norvège) Malcolm Bilson (Fondation des États-Unis) Karen Blixen (Fondation Danoise) Habib Bourguiba Josep Puig i Cadafalch (Collège d'Espagne) Michel Camdessus Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas (Maison du Mexique) Américo Castro (Collège d'Espagne) Luis Cernuda (Collège d'Espagne) Aimé Césaire Georges Charpak Inger Christensen Adrienne Clarkson (Maison des étudiants canadiens) Julio Cortázar (Fondation Argentine) Michèle Cotta Jean-Louis Curtis Fernando del Paso (Maison du Mexique) Georges Descrières Abdou Diouf (Résidence Lucien Paye) Laurent Dispot (Collège Franco-Britannique) Jean Dries (Fondation Deutsch de la