Word: perroy
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...Edward Perroy, exchange professor of History, disagreed as a French Socialist. He said, "The German elections indicate the general European trend toward the right. We must be careful before giving Germany free government and a large army...
...Perroy is here from the Sorbonne to teach mediaeval French history. Otherwise the dapper little man, habitually dressed in dark double-breasted suits, buries himself behind the stacks in his fourth floor Widener office or chats with his Leverett House mates...
...terms his subject --mediaeval history--a "kind of no man's land" that students often skip. Europeans don't have the American passion for breaking down history into blocks by country and era: "We don't study French history; we study history." Not used to general survey courses, Perroy is having considerable trouble compressing the whole Carolingian Empire into three weeks...
During the war, Perroy continued his work at the Sorbonne, while doing "odd jobs" for the underground on the side. When the Petain government tried to press French students into forced labor in Germany, Perroy helped spirit them off to the Maquis. His success prompted the Germans into an investigation and Perroy had to "disappear" to Lyons, where he took over direction of all underground activities in that district...
...Perroy is trying bachelor life again--briefly--during his stay in Cambridge. He has left his wife in Paris to with his 20-year-old daughter, an art student. Judging only on three weeks he thinks Leverett may "look more like grown-up boys, physically speaking, but intellectually they are very mature." He completely approves the free boy-girl relationships here as any typically French man should (at French universities girls out-number boys): "After all there is no means to exert supervision on what they are doing; it is none of my business how they mix outside the lecture...