Robert Darnton, Princeton University and Harvard University (thesis advisor)
Robert Shackleton, Oxford University (Darnton's thesis advisor)
Gustave Rudler, Oxford University (Shackleton's thesis advisor)
Gustave Lanson, Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure (Rudler's thesis advisor)
Gaston Boissier, École Normale Supérieure and Collège de France (Lanson's mentor)