Sorbonne, University of Paris

She broke new ground again here, this time by including white characters who are important in themselves as well as by giving more attention to relationship between blacks and whites and to that between blacks...

Here they kept up a front of marriage but led essentially separate lives. By 1924, VT had begun her first concerted, mature attempts at writing (including a play and a novel, both ultimately unpublished)...

After teaching at various US universities and at the Sorbonne in Paris, NES returned to Cairo in Egypt.

The thesis, originally titled De l'alimentation végétale chez l'homme, was presented in July 1880 to the Faculté de Médicine of Paris . The text (said by the Anna Kingsford site to have been published...

In 1855 she probably published in The Biographical Magazine the life of Felicité de Lammenais , excommunicated French priest, literary critic, and translator, whom she met while studying at the Sorbonne . The article appeared...

While studying at the Sorbonne , Jessie White (later JWM ) travelled with friends to Italy, where she met Garibaldi .

Towards the end of the first world war SB 's political consciousness was born when she began to see war as both evil and unnecessary. Germans, too, she realised, could suffer and die: she wished...

Around 1924, when VT was attending classes at the Sorbonne , she wrote a play (unpublished and probably unperformed) about Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I titled Les soeurs ennemies.

They met after the successful publication that year of Maitland's novel By and By: an Historical Romance of the Future. Although the full nature of their relationship is not known, it...

SB met Jean-Paul Sartre while both were preparing to write agrégation exams at the Sorbonne in Paris.

HC became professor of English Literature at the new university. The university soon distinguished itself by attracting an extremely high-quality faculty, though the French government never particularly appreciated its existence. HC founded the Centre des Recherches en Etudes Féminines

With a secondary school teaching diploma in English, HC began teaching in 1959, the year before she began working on her doctoral thesis, at the lycée (a selective secondary school which prepares for university entrance)...

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...