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Christie McDonald, professor of romancelanguages and literatures and the chair of theFrench section, agrees that other areas are notneglected...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: Profs. Fight Attacks on Harvard's French Program | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

...think that the journalist has been utterlyunprofessional and insulting, and they are rightto sue back," says Denis Hollier, the chair of theFrench Department at Yale. "...But I don't thinkit will solve the very deep misunderstanding thatFrench people have about American universities...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: Two Professors Sue French Magazine | 4/17/1995 | See Source »

Some of us put on shows for servicemen, theDance Club hopping through Mexican steps, theFrench Club inventing a cabaret for the crew of aFree French warship in Boston Harbor. For thisevent, from a record, I learned to sing "LeFiacre." Later, I corresponded with one sailor ashis maraine-de-guerre(godmother-of-war)--until French censors found, inone of his letters to me, a snapshot of his ship.For this lapse, my godson-of-war did some time inthe brig...

Author: By Sylvia Maynard, | Title: Class of '44 Grads Reflect on Impact of War on College Life | 6/7/1994 | See Source »

...because the two French brothers were thefirst in the movement, they established the Frenchas pioneers in the industry, Podheiser said. TheFrench film industry lost its position at thevanguard during the First World War when theGermans devastated the French economy...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Harvard Film Archives To Show World's Oldest Movies In Series | 9/29/1987 | See Source »

Isaak Levitan was clearly the leading landscapepainter of the day, and the exhibition offersseveral fine examples of his work. In thesepaintings, we distinguish the distinct mark of theFrench Barbizon painters in his direct and simpletreatment of a nature without people or astory--the beauty of the colors, the naturalpoetry captured in the scene, shines throughLevitan's paintings...

Author: By Maurie Samuels, | Title: From Russia With Love | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

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