René Girard
René Girard René Girard was born in Avignon, France, on 25 December 1923 and died in Stanford, California, on 4 November 2015. Trained as a paleographer and archivist at the École des Chartes, he moved to the United States in 1947 and earned a doctorate in history from Indiana University in 1950. He taught at Johns Hopkins University, at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and, from 1981, at Stanford, where he remained until his retirement in 1995. He was elected to the Académie française in 2005. ...