Still not completely lost in history: In the longer term, the budget was limited and the Institute could only accept twenty new students by its second year. After 1943 it could continue no longer and took in no new students and in 1950 its activities were suspended altogether.
尚未完全走入歷史綜觀里昂中法大學的發展，限於經費，第二年開始，每年就只收約廿名新生，到一九四三年終於後繼無力，再無新生入學；至一九五○年停止活動。