Now 92 and retired from teaching, he is no less the "veritable Pic," as French students call those classmates who remind them of Pico della Mirandola -- that young man of the Renaissance who knew everything.
You and your ideas.' And then she said, 'Well, but I had a feeling you were doing something like that.' " Fallaci's parents looked upon the Americans as their particular friends, and when she was in high school they insisted that she learn English when her classmates were studying French.
"We were very proud of her: she was a feminist; she was outspoken," said Jane Moss, a classmate who now teaches French at Colby College.
After all, she was only a schoolgirl standing on the sidewalk by Long Island City High with a classmate when the handsome French sailors, their red-pomponed hats rakishly askew, strode by.
"Here my classmates speak German, Spanish, Arabic, French, Italian, Chinese, Japanese.
In three years at Louis-le-Grand, and guided by his classmate Georges Pompidou, he bathed in French culture, discovering literature and his favourite poets, Rimbaud and Baudelaire, as well as the Catholic, Claudel.
While I hadn't studied French for 15 years, most of my fellow classmates were straight out of school or college and still had brains like sponges.
Rouch meets with white colonial French high-school students and their black African classmates (all non-actors) and persuades them to improvise a drama about integrating the mutually wary groups.
A recent alumnus said that by the time he took his French final exam one year, he, along with his classmates, had lost all respect for the teacher.
I remember two Senegalese French teachers in high school, whom many of our classmates swooned over.
