Marc M. Pelen ’68 *73

Marc died Sept. 1, 2017, at his home in Paris.

A French national, he was born Dec. 15, 1942, in Washington, D.C. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy, where he played tennis, piano, and organ. At Princeton, Marc majored in English, played tennis, was a University organist, and ate independently. He earned a bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degree at Princeton.

After completing his Ph.D., Marc was hired to introduce English courses at the American College in Paris, and was a professor of comparative literature at that institution for more than three decades. His courses covered all periods from antiquity to the contemporary. He contributed numerous articles to the Chaucer Review, published Latin Poetic Irony in the Roman de la Rose in 1987, and was working on a monograph on Aristotle when his health began to fail.

To his friends, colleagues, and former students, the class extends its deepest sympathies.