Michael Francis Gibson

The son of U.S. Ambassador Hugh S. Gibson, he spent his childhood moving among eight schools in six countries, studied at the Collège Jean de Brébeuf in Montreal and the University of Louvain, and finally made Paris his permanent home in 1958; his multilingual education enabled him to translate scholarly works such as E.R. Dodds’s The Greeks and the Irrational into French. In the early 1960s he fo… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources