Historical record of a Cold War refugee student

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I recently found this letter in the archives of the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (Quai d’Orsay) which was addressed to the First Lady of France, Madame Vincent Auriol, in July 1953. The writer of the letter is a young Armenian who had been living in a refugee camp for two years in the Free Territory of Trieste. He asked for help to get a fellowship to come to France to complete his university studies. It is not only a unique source for my research on students in exile tha...

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