From: rusin@vesuvius.math.niu.edu (Dave Rusin)
Subject: Re: Paul Levy
Date: 1 Jun 2000 08:15:47 GMT
Newsgroups: sci.math
Summary: [missing]

In article <39360C7B.9B983D17@home.com>,
Doug Magnoli  <dmagnoli@home.com> wrote:
>Looks like the boy could be French, in which case the only accent that
>makes sense is the acute, rising to the right.  I'm hard pressed to come
>up with a language in which a grave accent might make sense in this
>context.

I'm sure you meant something sensible, but I'm not sure what. Consider
for example the obituary of Levy written by a colleague in  
Ann. Probability 1 (1971) (MR 49#7083): the citation is
   `` Paul L\'evy, 1886-1971 '', by Michel Lo\`eve

dave