Sorbonne, University of Paris

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...

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...

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

While working on her doctorate in 1963, HC travelled to the United States to research James Joyce 's manuscripts for her doctoral thesis, and, in California,, she prepared a second thesis on Robinson Jeffers...

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)...

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

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

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...