{"id":9689,"date":"2022-10-12T14:36:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T12:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lfia.agencebisart.com\/a-propos\/our-story\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T11:42:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T10:42:42","slug":"our-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lfianvers.org\/en\/about-us\/our-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Our story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- avec ou sans CTA : m\u00eame code, \u00e7a centre verticalement le texte --><\/p>\n<div class=\"smallheader\" id=\"bloc_small_header_6\">\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t#bloc_small_header_6 {background-image: url(https:\/\/www.lfianvers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/221010-LFIA-Spaces-39-610x270.jpg);}\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t@media (min-width: 480px) {\t#bloc_small_header_6 {background-image: url(https:\/\/www.lfianvers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/221010-LFIA-Spaces-39-610x270.jpg);}}\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t@media (min-width: 768px) {\t#bloc_small_header_6 {background-image: url(https:\/\/www.lfianvers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/221010-LFIA-Spaces-39-1024x684.jpg);}}\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t@media (min-width: 992px) { #bloc_small_header_6 {background-image: url(https:\/\/www.lfianvers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/221010-LFIA-Spaces-39-1024x684.jpg);}}\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t@media (min-width: 1200px) { #bloc_small_header_6 {background-image: url(https:\/\/www.lfianvers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/221010-LFIA-Spaces-39-1536x1026.jpg);}}\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/style>\n<div class=\"container d-flex flex-column justify-content-center align-items-start\">\n<h1><span>Our story<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"bloctext bloctext--nocolor bloctext--haspattern\" id=\"bloc_6_7\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-lg-4 col-xl-3 mb-1\">\n<h2><span>Odyssey school network<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-12 col-lg-8 col-xl-9\">\n<div class=\"text pl-lg-4\">\n<p class=\"p1\">Supported by French institutions, the Odyssey Education group is based on a philosophy rooted in the tradition of excellence in French education, multilingualism, an international outlook and personal development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">When founded in 1901, the French International<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>School was a Belgian French-speaking educational institution known as Institut Rochez, then The School of Antwerp (<i>Lyc\u00e9e d&rsquo;Anvers<\/i>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">After the First World War <span class=\"s1\">,<\/span> it became a girls&rsquo; school named Coll\u00e8ge Marie-Jos\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The school then developed under the Belgian education reorganisation campaign in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blocmedia blocmedia--textright blocmedia--color2\" id=\"bloc_2_8\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6\">\n<div class=\"slider\">\n<div id=\"slider-bloc_2_8\" class=\"flexslider flexslider--blocmedia loading\">\n<ul class=\"slides list-unstyled\">\n<li class=\"slider-li\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t     \t<a data-fancybox=\"rel-slider-bloc_2_8\" data-caption=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lfianvers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/221010-LFIA-Classrooms-70-722x564.jpg\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lfianvers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/221010-LFIA-Classrooms-70-722x564.jpg\" width=\"\" height=\"\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t     <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-5 d-flex flex-column justify-content-center align-items-start mb-2 mb-md-0\">\n<div class=\"text\">\n<h2><span>French International School <\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In the 2000s, the French-speaking Belgian school became the French International School (Lyc\u00e9e Fran\u00e7ais International). 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