"“They call us knights-errant. But we are not wandering aimlessly, we have a destination.”
This timeline summarises the intertwined stories of events on the world stage and the Cyprian Norwid Polish high school.
The special relationship between France and Poland. Invasion and declaration of war. Battle of France and the armistice. Creation of the high school by a government in exile. First baccalaureates. Invasion of the unoccupied zone. First deportations. The rise of the resistance. Fighting in the Vercors and elsewhere. The victims. Allied victory. The last baccalaureate. The dispersal of the Villardians. The first alumni reunion, their first association, remembrance today.
20 July
With the thirtieth anniversary of the fighting in the Vercors approaching, former students in Poland and France set up the "Union of former students of the Cyprian Norwid Polish High School in Villard-de-Lans and their families - Amicale Villardczycy".