The Autour du Monde scholarships were set up in 1898, after Kahn founded his own bank and traveled extensively between 1896-1897. Developed along with Henri Bergson (whose words we recognize in the foundational texts) and Ferdinand Buisson (then professor of educational sciences at the Sorbonne), this initial creation was entrusted to the University of Paris.

On August 4, 1914, the day after the war was declared, Albert Kahn traversed Paris and rapidly mobilized energy in order to implement a charity meant for civilian populations.

Created during wartime, the Study Committee could only proclaim to be “national.” However, its preoccupations were not limited to France. Indeed, the subjects chosen were based on their importance in immediate or upcoming news, and the international often predominated.

In order to publish these publications, Kahn created his own printing house on the rue du Port. The whole ended up representing 336 volumes of 300 pages.

In 1920, Albert Kahn turned the notion of “documentation” into something concrete and applied it in two different ways.

As a man aware of the medical challenges of his time, Kahn knew the importance of prevention in public health.

By including all of his foundations within the same structure, Kahn seemed to want to avoid any kind of fragmentary thinking