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The Foyer étudiant - Residence internationale :
- Is recognized "d'utilité publique".
- Is approuved by the C.R.O.U.S.
- The residents are members of the association.
- The association is member to the National Union of Student
Houses
In 1646 Louis XV authorizes the installation of the order of Minimes in this place bought thanks to a gift of Margueritte de Sassenage. Nearly 150 years later, during the french revolution, the occupants are thrown out. In 1793, the building becomes a manufacture of rifles.
"the blast furnaces and trip hammers sequestered at the expense Large Chartreuse with Fourvoirie and of chartreuse of Saint-Hugon (close to Allevard) will produce the cast iron and iron; the forged guns with Fourvoirie and the sticks out of wooden of drowning worked by craftsmen of bas-Dauphiné, will be assembled to Grenoble in the workshops of the old convent of Minimes where platinums and trimmings will be also handbuilt." M. Robert CHAGNY, honorary lecturer - Inheritances of Isere.
1802: the promulgation of the Legal settlement signed by the Black
and white pope VII and Napoleon Bonaparte will be the occasion for the
Roman catholic Church to regain the building although it is in bad
condition. 1805: reopening of the "seminar" in the old convent, until
the french separation of Church and State, one century later. The
building becomes property of the University, it is used by the army
during First World War.
1919: After the trauma of World War One, many people say: never again
!. The idea of the creation of the Residence started from there: if
young people of all nationalities have the occasion to stay and live
together, for the time of their studies, never will they accept, once
returned back home, to use weapons one against each other. Thus the
association was created, in two wings of the building, with the willing
of various associations, some of which were Protestant. The secularity
of the Residence has been proclaimed from the beginning, and never
denied since. Under extremely precarious conditions at the beginning,
the building will shelter girls arrived from all the continents, giving
access to education.
The other wing of the Convent includes the old vault, now transformed
into a Concert hall: the Salle Olivier Messiaen, where concerts are
given by the Chamber orchestra of Grenoble "the Musicians of the
Louvre"...
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