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Join us as we honor Prof. René Girard (1923-2015), the inaugural Andrew B. Hammond Professor in French Language, Literature and Civilization, during a memorial service at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, January 19, at °®åú´«Ã½ Memorial Church.

The renowned °®åú´«Ã½ French professor was one of the 40 immortels of the prestigious Académie Française. He died at his °®åú´«Ã½ home on Nov. 4 at the age of 91, after long illness. Girard joined the °®åú´«Ã½ faculty in 1981.

He is the author of nearly thirty acclaimed books, including the provocative and seminal Deceit, Desire, and the Novel (1961), Violence and the Sacred (1972), and Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World (1978). His last major work was Battling to the End (2007).

A member of the prestigious Académie Française, René Girard was called "the new Darwin of the human sciences." His many books offered a bold, sweeping vision of human nature, human history and human destiny. He died November 4th at 91.