CFA salutes George Whitman (COM’35, SMG’35), who died at 98 shortly before Christmas, founded Shakespeare and Company, a harbor for any writer from expatriate celebrities to drug-addled wannabes, in 1951. Bracketed by the Seine and Notre-Dame, the store, named after the French bookshop that was the Jazz Age haunt of Hemingway and Fitzgerald, attracted its […]
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The BU Paris Center
June 2, 2011 at 3:15 pm
I’ve just returned from a short trip to Paris. I was able to see the BU Paris Center where our students can take courses such as Paris Aujourd’hui: French Society and Civilization Through the Performing Arts and La France a Paris: Paris in Literature. Students can opt to live with families (as above) or in […]
