Early Life and Education
Faurisson is the son of a French father and a Scottish mother, Jessica Hay Aitken. He was trained as a professor of French literature, receiving his agrégation (license to teach) in 1956, and his doctorate in 1972. He was lecturer, then professor, of French literature at the University of Lyon between 1973 and 1990.
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