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Every year the Cité Internationale accommodates 12,000 students, researchers and artists in its 40 houses.
The Rosa Abreu de Grancher Foundation opened its doors in 1933 to house Cuban students studying in Paris. It was made possible by the generosity of Pierre Sanchez Abreu and his sister Rosalia, and they named the building after their aunt Rosa Abreu who was Cuban and her late husband, Jacques-Joseph Grancher a professor who worked with Louis Pasteur on the rabies vaccine. The donation was made official by the Abreu Family in 1929, and additional financial support was provided by the Fondation nationale, cité internationale universitaire de Paris in order to increase the number of student rooms in the house.
The architect Albert Laprade, one of the architects responsible for the Lucien Paye Foundation and who would later design the museum of arts of Africa and Oceania in Paris, designed the building and construction began in the 1930s. Laprade took his inspiration from the cathedral in Havana and created an elegant, Spanish colonial style residence.
In 2007, the Cité internationale signed an agreement with the Hospitals and Public Assistance of Paris (Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, AP-HP) that allows the AP-HP use of 150 rooms or flats to house foreign health care professionals training in France.