François Charles Archile Jeanneret languages at Upper Canada College from 1912 to 1913, and joined the staff of the University of Toronto's University College in 1913. From 1926 to 1941, he directed the Ontario Ministry of Education's oral French course for teachers at Quebec City and was honored by Laval University. He was named an Officer d'Academie in 1940 by France, and was later awarded a medal from the French government in 1959 and the Pierre Chauveau Medal from the Royal Society of Canada. When he returned to the University of Toronto, Jeanneret took on several positions, including chairman of the university's School of
Edouard de Laurot Edouard de Laurot Edward Lada Laudański (23 April 1922, Łódź – 1993, New York, New York) better known as Édouard de Laurot, aka Yves de Laurot, was a filmmaker and writer of Polish/French nationality. Jonas Mekas (2007) notes the incredible circumstances of De Laurot's life, including his experiences in the Polish Resistance and surviving the second Warsaw Uprising during World War II. In a video interview Mekas recounts how Laurot would tell the friends of the engaged cinema group tall stories including how he was chosen by the Polish resistance in Warsaw to swim across the river Wisla, under German