Le Panthéon et son quartier

In the photos just below you see the dome of the Panthéon and the colonnade that is the "balcony" of the building. It's from there that I took a lot of the photos I've been posting recently. The second and third photos below show the street called la rue Soufflot where I worked in 1974-75, as the assistant director of the University of Illinois year abroad program. I had just earned my masters degree in French at the U of I, as it's called.

I was also taking French linguistics classes at the Sorbonne and working part-time as a consultant to a group of Sorbonne professors who taught American English and American history. I was in my mid-20s at the time. In 1975-76, I taught American English and American history at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, a unit of the University of Paris, replacing a professor who was on sabbatical. I also taught English at the École Nationale d'Administration (the French civil service college) and at other schools around the Latin Quarter and St-Germain-des-Prés. It was exciting but exhausting free-lance work, and I decided to return to the University of Illinois in 1976 and enter the PhD program.