To evokes the memory of AFS's beginnings, here in Paris, is to celebrate the culture of an common enterprise that still helps adventuresome young people from one country to discover and share the lives of people from another.

It so happened that 19th century Paris was a Mecca for young art students from abroad. It so happened that the international movement to bring civilian assistance to wounded soldiers gave the opportunity to oung Americans to assume heroic roles – the anse^wer to the symbol of La Fayette crossing the  great Atlantic where, in the midst of his volunteer service, he was adopted by the older, wiser Washington.

The collective experience leading to and developing the Field Service was full of colorful chracters: Evans, Herrick, Andrew, Galatti; full of colorful events: the two American Ambulances , 21, Rue Raynouard...

This liitle booklet was desgned to introduce you to the places where these people lived and events took place – or are commemorated. While American Paris is divided into the Student and Artist Quarter of the Left Bank and the Colony of the Right Bank – both influences in the development of AFS –the Field Service itself became implanted in the latter, in a relatively small area around Passy, after beginning in the suburban outpost of Neuilly-sur Seine. An ideal situation for some interesting strolls...