The Department of French will hold a memorial service on Saturday, May 14, for Jacques Guicharnaud, the Benjamin F. Barge Professor Emeritus of French, who died on March 5 at his home in New Haven.
The service will take place at 2 p.m. in Sudler Hall in William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. A reception will follow at the Koerner Center, 149 Elm St.
Guicharnaud, who taught at Yale for four decades, specialized in French literature and drama of the 17th, 18th and 20th centuries. He also wrote and directed plays for stage and television, and authored short stories and a novel. A native of Paris, as a student Guicharnaud circulated within a group of intellectuals that included the Existentialists Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus and others.
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