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The BSI in Geneva

Route de Florissant no 5 (1933-1934)

The architect Samuel Vaucher (1798-1877) built this residence for himself and his family in the late 1830s.

It was later sold to the banker Isaac Hentsch-de Chastel (1785-1868). The house was destroyed in the summer of 2014.

La Bibliothèque Sino-internationale, dont le projet définitif avait été établi en 1932, a commencé à s'installer

dès l'année suivante à Genève, dans un immeuble sis au numéro 5 de la route Florissant [1]

After the installation of the Library at the Château de Montalègre in September 1934, the house at 5 route de Florissant remains active as Institut Sino-International.

The house at 5, route de Florissant.

Château de Montalègre (1934-1938)

route de Vésenaz, Genève. Tél. 45.330

The Sino-International Library was inaugurated at the Château de Montalègre on September 23, 1934.

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Pavillon du désarmement (1938-1949)

The Sino-International Library moved in January 1938 [2] to the Pavillon du désarmement, an annexe to the Palais Wilson, built in 1932 by architect Adolphe Guyonnet and engineer Louis Perrin.

The building was destroyed by fire on the night of August 1, 1987.

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Source : Chine. N°3 (Juin-Juillet 1938), p.31.


Shanghai

A Shanghai branch (French: Section de Shanghai, Chinese: 上海之部 ) of the BSI was situated at Route Fergusson 393 - now Wukanglu (Chinese: 武康路) 393, a property of the Che Kiai Cheu (World Society).


Other branches were planned in Nice, Lyon, and New York, but seem to have never been fully implemented.

Montevideo

Biblioteca Nacional de Uruguay

Références

  1. [BSI Genève Shanghai, 1934, p. 1]
  2. Journal de Genève, 15 January 1938