May 2, 2000 - 
Stephen
D. Carls, University Professor of History and chair of the department,
recently had his book on Louis Loucheur, an early twentieth-century French
businessman who entered politics after World War I, published in France.
The French book, titled Louis Loucheur: Ing茅nieur, homme d鈥櫭﹖at,
modernisateur de la France, 1872-1931, is a revised version of a book
that the Louisiana State University Press published in 1993 (Louis
Loucheur and the Shaping of Modern France, 1916-1931). Emmanuel
Chadeau, an eminent professor of contemporary history at the Universit茅
Charles de Gaulle - Lille III, wrote the book鈥檚 preface. Carls began
research on Loucheur in 1976 and was pleased to see his efforts recognized
with the release of the French publication in April, 2000. His wife, a
translator and historian, translated the work from English into French.
