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Artistic Conservatory of French Polynesia

cultural organization in French Polynesia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ27941094 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Artistic Conservatory of French Polynesia (ty: te fare upa rau est / fr: Conservatoire artistique de Polynésie française) or CAPF is a cultural organisation in French Polynesia whose goal is the conservation of the cultural heritage of French Polynesia. It was founded in 1979 by Maco Tevane and Claude Malric.

Editorial summary

“Artistic Conservatory of French Polynesia” enters the record as cultural organization in French Polynesia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Artistic, Conservatory and French can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1979. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Artistic, Conservatory and French.
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Why this record matters

“Artistic Conservatory of French Polynesia” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Artistic, Conservatory and French provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q27941094. VIAF identifies the subject as 130582428. The Library of Congress control number is no2009087305. Authority coordinates are -17.547, -149.579. 1 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1979.

Critical limits

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Artistic Conservatory of French Polynesia” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.