Sorbonne, University of Paris

After the private boys' school Smith Academy in St Louis (founded by his grandfather) TSE went on in fall 1906 to Harvard (where the President was his cousin). He took his BA in literature and...

Next RT 's mother sent her to another finishing school, this time in Paris and run by Roman Catholic nuns. By now she had the confidence to discharge herself and enroll instead on a course...

LI took her first degree (an MA in philosophy and literature) at the University of Louvain in 1955. At this time, she wrote a thesis on the idea of purity in Paul Valéry 's work...

Sylvia Mosley went to Lady Manners School in Bakewell and then took an Honours BA in French at Bristol University in 1957. During her undergraduate course she also took a Diplome d'Etudes de Civilisation Française...

AK was admitted to the Sorbonne (the University of Paris) to study medicine, after she successfully passed an entrance exam in London.

AK obtained her MD degree on completing her studies at the medical faculty of the Sorbonne in Paris.

She also enrolled for doctoral work at the Sorbonne in Paris, where she studied at Université de Paris VII under Lévi-Strauss , Tzvetan Todorov , Roland Barthes , and Lucien Goldmann . She took her Ph.D. in 1973.

She later studied at schools in Reading, and London. She favoured English poetry but her diligent studying was often overshadowed by her lack of discipline, personal disorderliness, and unruliness in the classroom...