Annuaire de l'Institut catholique de Paris 1959-1960, p. 66
Information trouvée : Robert Lacour-Gayet : professeur à l'Institut catholique de Paris
La vie quotidienne aux États-Unis à la veille de la guerre de sécession : 1830-1860
/ Robert Lacour-Gayet, 1957
Wikipedia, 2020-11-30
Information trouvée : Robert Lacour-Gayet (July 22, 1896 – March 2, 1989) was a French banking official,
historian, author, and educator who taught in the United States after World War II.
He served as an artillery officer during World War I, for which he received the Croix
de Guerre.[1] Lacour-Gayet studied at the Lycee Louis-le-Grand, l'Ecole des sciences
Politiques, and the University of Paris, from which he held both a Master's and Doctorate
in Law, as well as a Doctorate in Economic Science. In 1921, Lacour-Gayet was admitted
to the Council of the Inspector General of Finance in France, and was subsequently
named Financial Representative of France in the United States (1924-1930). He then
became Director of the Economic Department for the Bank of France in 1930, before
being named Chief of the Office of Inspectors General of Finance in 1939, a position
he held until 1945. He was given the title of Inspecteur général honoraire des Finances.
Lacour-Gayet began his teaching career in the United States in 1945 as a Lecturer
in Administrative Law at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He began teaching
at St. John's University in 1946, and was appointed Associate Professor and Chairman
of the Department of History and Government in 1950. Lacour-Gayet was promoted to
Professor in 1954, and remained at St. John's until 1957, when he became Professor
Emeritus. He frequently taught evening classes at New York University, and during
Summers at the Universite Laval. He became president of the Société des Professeurs
Français en Amérique in 1953. Lacour-Gayet returned to Paris in 1957 to teach American
history and literature at the Catholic Institute of Paris.
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