French Lessons

Alice Kaplan

1993

[…] On my first research trip to France as a professional scholar in the summer of 1982, I set out to find the only fascist intellectual discussed in my dissertation who was still alive; his name was Maurice Bardèche. Bardèche was the keeper of the archives of the executed writer Robert Brasillach; he had been Brasillach’s best friend at the Ecole…

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Alice Kaplan

b. 1954

Alice Kaplan was born in Minneapolis. As a historian and literary critic, she specializes in the history of postwar France. She taught at Duke University and is currently the John M. Musser Professor of French at Yale University. In 2000 she was a finalist for the National Book Award.

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