The Private school of the High Studies was, with New York, a kind of university in exile for the French Academics during the Second world war. It under the control of the Belgian governments and French in exile and was located in the New School . Its founding members included/understood Jean Wahl, Jacques Maritain and Gustave Cohen and it was subsidized by the Fondation Rockefeller.

The philosopher Jacques Maritain, the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, and the linguist Roman Jakobson taught in this school.

After the war, it was transformed gradually into one of the principal institutions of research in Paris, the École of the High Studies in Social sciences, which maintains close links with the New Yorkean New School .

References

• Aristide R. Zolberg, " The Private school At the New School 1941-1946" , Social Research , Winter 1998 At HighBeam Encyclopedia At FindArticles