1962 Paris I.L.C. Student ID Card Anny Peiffer Tourism Hotel Correspondence
$ 6.86
Description
1962 Paris I.L.C. Student ID Card Anny Peiffer Tourism Hotel Correspondence. The typed student number, 100170, appears alongside the issue date of 12 October 1962. The card is signed by the director with a cursive flourish, likely that of M. Lebonnel or a similar administrative official, and includes a faded but discernible ink stamp. This is a vintage student identification card, a *Carte d’Étudiante*, issued by the Institut Linguistique & Commercial de Paris (I.L.C.) in 1962. Printed on a vibrant orange-red card stock, the document bears both typed and handwritten inscriptions, an official ink stamp, and a director’s signature. The card identifies the student as Mademoiselle Anny Peiffer, a resident of Pau in the department of Basses-Pyrénées (now Pyrénées-Atlantiques), who was enrolled in the institute’s correspondence courses in Tourism and Hotel Management, covering both Cycle A and Cycle B. The typed student number, 100170, appears alongside the issue date of 12 October 1962. The card is signed by the director with a cursive flourish, likely that of M. Lebonnel or a similar administrative official, and includes a faded but discernible ink stamp. The text, primarily in French, reads “CARTE D’ETUDIANTE I.L.C.” and confirms that the holder is registered for “cours de TOURISME & HOTELLERIE” via “Enseignement par Correspondance,” a distance learning model that was a hallmark of mid-century vocational education. The card’s layout is functional, with fields for the student’s name, number, location, and course details, all neatly typed onto the pre-printed form. A central vertical fold line, likely from mailing or storage, runs through the card, and the edges show slight softening and minor age-related wear, but the vibrant orange hue remains largely intact. The paper stock has a fibrous texture typical of mid-century cardstock, and the typography reflects the utilitarian design conventions of French administrative printing from the early 1960s. This piece of ephemera documents the intersection of linguistic and commercial training with the burgeoning tourism and hospitality industry in post-war France, offering a tangible link to the correspondence education systems that enabled students in provincial towns like Pau to access Parisian vocational curricula. The card’s condition, with all text legible and no major tears or stains, makes it a collectible artifact of French educational and commercial history.
