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“Dude, we better hurry. We don’t want to be late for Monsieur Paret,” my friend yelled across the hallway in Trancos as we rushed to lecture. It was winter quarter of my freshman year in January of 1982 at Stanford, and the professor for HIST 2: “Europe from the Wars of Religion to the Nation-State” was Peter Paret. We had noticed he had some kind of European accent, so we assumed that he was French based on the pronunciation of his last name. So, we referred to him as Monsieur Paret when we talked about class. The History 1-2-3 sequence was one path to completing what was then the year-long “Western Culture” requirement for freshmen. History 1 in autumn quarter with Professor Carolyn Lougee had gone OK, but not great. I had thought it would start with ancient history, but it began with late antiquity. I remember trying to soldier my way through St. Augustine’s “Confessions” in preparation for the first discussion section meeting and having to re- ....