Correspondence between Parrot and Schaeffer on academy appointmentsClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer and André Parrot

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24 September 1963

Dear friend,

Delighted to receive today your letter from Enkomi which gives me good news of you. We had certainly thought of you, first on the 11th, then on the 13th, the days of your respective departures. Our holidays allowed us to do everything we had planned: a concert on the 1st September and then a long trip towards the Basque coast, then the Pyrenees (magnificent weather in the mountains), then the Vermeil coast le (Collioure, Banyuls) and back up to Paris in 4 days. We were well rested. No incident of any kind.

^I easily picture you now at Enkomi of which we keep such a good memory, and I wish you an excellent season, hoping that the situation will also stabilise in Syria before your arrival at Ras Shamra.

I am being introduced to the Academy next Friday because I was afraid my wife would not be there on the 20th, having to go to La Flèche to record on the organ of the Prytanée. I had therefore asked to be postponed to the 27th, which was accepted without objection. Regarding the forthcoming elections, I think somewhat differently from you, in that I consider we should facilitate the appointment first of the Latinist, for it is to the gesture of the Latinists that I owe my election. ^Recall that the medievalist bloc did not give up a single vote, at the 2nd round. Then, without doubt, Vandier, for ^Montet cannot remain alone. I therefore agree with you on this point. Naturally it is also necessary to think of Mallowan for an associate place. Again we are entirely in agreement.

And now I leave you, for I still have a great deal to do this afternoon, but I wanted to send you this sign of life immediately on receipt of your letter.

x ds A.C.My wife is giving a concert at the end of the afternoon for a Congress (17 hours) and at 19 hours she will be on the train for she plays tomorrow in the provinces. You see that neither of us is out of work. I shall tell her shortly that I have received your good news. She will be delighted. All our best wishes to Madame Schaeffer when you write to her. I shall intervene on her behalf at the Ministry^x for what you know of. I would very much like to succeed.

Good health, dear friend. Regards to Courtois and warmest regards to you

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