The CCFS is located in central Montparnasse, a stone’s throw from the famous Latin Quarter and Luxembourg Gardens. The education centre at 214 Boulevard Raspail has particularly good public transport links (metro line 4, stop Vavin, line 6, stop Raspail, bus routes 58, 82 and 91).

William of Rubruck: the french monk who reached mongolia before Marco Polo
William of Rubruck: the french explorer who beat Marco Polo to the mongol empire When we think of medieval European explorers journeying to the Far East, one name invariably comes to mind: Marco Polo. His tales of Xanadu and the court of Kublai Khan have fired the imagination for centuries. But what if we told you that decades before Polo’s




