PARIS – On December 14th, FISU President Claude-Louis Gallien and FISU Secretary-General/CEO Eric Saintrond attended the General Assembly of the Paris University Club (PUC), held in Paris at the French Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF).
The chairman of the PUC, Michel Samper, congratulated Professor Claude-Louis GALLIEN on his election as President of FISU and gave him a historical bronze plaque representing Jean Petitjean, the first president of FISU.
Jean Petitjean, Commissioner-General for sports of the International Confederation of Students (CIE) will, at the Congress of the CIE in the Hague in January 1923, become the founder of the International University Sports Movement and the organizer of the first "World University Games" to be held in Paris in May 1923. The event was staged in the stadium of the PUC, along with the first International Conference on University Sport to be held at the Sorbonne. The Games included athletics and fencing, and brought together students from 10 countries, whereas another 4 countries sent observers. Star of the event was without doubt the American Charlie Paddock, Olympic champion on the 100 meters, who on this occasion, equaled the world record on this distance.
FISU President Gallien presented the PUC President the original poster constituting a sort of birth certificate of the PUC, which was displayed on the walls of the Sorbonne University and throughout the Latin Quarter in 1905.
Besides the bronze relic, FISU acquired also two original posters published on the occasion of the World University Games held in Paris in 1937 and 1947, of great historic value to FISU.
The posters and the bronze plaque of Jean Petitjean join the historical collections of FISU. It is important also to note that the FISU Historical Committee has been reactivated and its members are working on a book on the history of FISU.
C. Pierre, FISU Press Officer
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