The Béraud family were a wealthy and influential family of merchants that first arrived in Cyprus, from France, in the 17th century. The Sylvain Béraud Collection consists of 150 personal photographs from Prof. Sylvain Béraud, who moved to Cyprus from Egypt in 1934 at the age of one. Sylvain Béraud would go on to teach at Ecole Saint Joseph in Nicosia for 20 years, author many books, and act as a prominent promoter and supporter of the Latin community in Cyprus, earning him the titles of Chevalier and Officier de l’ Ordre National du Mérite.
This particular selection entitled, Sylvain Béraud Collection – Wedding and Career, includes 52 black and white and 9 colour photographs from Sylvain’s adult life starting with pictures from his wedding to his wife Mary, to their home in Nicosia, and continuing through his career as a teacher at Ecole Saint Joseph.
The images that comprise the online collection were reproduced from the original roll films. The titles were taken from inscriptions when available. Where no inscriptions were available the titles were generated by the cataloguer describing the depicted subject.
CVAR holds digital reproduction of the originals and shares copyrights with the owner
Guests at party
1960-1970
Guests at party
1960-1970
Makarios III
1960-1977
School ceremony
[s.d.]
Ecole Saint Joseph
1980
Ecole Saint Joseph
1980
Ecole Saint Joseph
1980
Ecole Saint Joseph
1980
Sylvain Béraud in a library
[s.d.]
Lecture
[s.d.]
Ceremony
[s.d.]
Kolossi
1980
Kolossi
1980
Kolossi
1980
School trip to Troodos
1981-1982
School trip to Troodos
1981-1982
Bellapais
1980
Bellapais
1980
Bellapais
[s.d.]
Bellapais
[s.d.]
Kyrenia harbour
[s.d.]
Kyrenia harbour
[s.d.]
Bellapais
[s.d.]
Kykkos High School
1989-03