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...took over the place and declared "Ourself founder." The faculty, rendering unto Caesar, removed "Jesus" from the front door and put up "Ludovici Magni" (Louis-le-grand). The pleased king founded a foreign-language study annex in Constantinople and a scholarship fund that salvaged more talent, including Encyclopedist Denis Diderot and one Franç Marie Arouet, the talented son of a notary who later called himself Voltaire. "Everyone who carries a name in France has spent his early youth in Louis-le-grand," gloated the Archbishop of Paris -charitably including that perverted praetorian, the Marquis de Sade. The pattern continued...
Voltaire, Diderot and others extracted from Locke what they chose, and the rational individual was enthroned as monarch of the universe. Never was the triumph of individualism more swiftly followed by disaster. In the French Revolution the Goddess of Reason danced in the streets?until she found herself at the foot of the guillotine. It remained for Napoleon to create from the Revolution the modern state (including the draft and the secret police) in which individual men are submerged in the abstract glory of the nation...
...France to North Africa, went to the U.S. and joined the OSS in Washington. By 1947, U.S. Citizen May had a doctorate from the University of Illinois and a teaching job at Yale, soon became a top scholar of 17th and 18th century French literature, wrote books on Racine, Diderot, Rousseau and others. A leader as well as a scholar, Professor May now runs Yale's Junior Year Abroad program, in 1961 became chairman of the important Course of Study Committee. Now, as Dean May, he will oversee living and learning for 3,990 undergraduates, and become...
Herring & Hot Plates. This year's crop of Americans in Russia comes from campuses as diverse as Berkeley and Emory. Most students are in their early 30s; all speak Russian. Topics of study tend to be esoteric: Russian comment on the French Encyclopedist Diderot, peasant self-government after the emancipation of the serfs, the attitude of the Czarist gentry to peasant reform. The predominant hoariness of the subjects is partly a result of Russian reluctance to open archives on recent events, for in Soviet practice, as one American put it, "What is history today may be non-history tomorrow...
...writes Nicolson, in a sly reference to her 30-odd lovers, "she did much to repair this gap in her experience." In later life she was also a great lip servant of liberty ("Liberty is the core of everything; without it there would be no life"). The French philosopher Diderot once shook her till her shoulders were black and blue to get her to apply a little enlightenment to her realm. With regal practicality she retorted: "Your medium is paper, and paper is always patient. I, Empress that I am, have to write on the sensitive skins of human beings...