From medieval “courtly love” to the work of such influential French feminists as Simone de Beauvoir and Hélène Cixous, issues of gender and sexuality have been at the core of French and Francophone ...

He also wrote influential essays about Judaism and French colonialism. Memmi, who died May 22 of natural causes, was an ardent Zionist. He advocated the movement as an anti-colonialist ...