PROFESSOR OF FRENCH DIES

Louis Cons, professor of French Literature, died at the Cambridge Hospital on Sunday after a brief illness. The funeral services will be held in Memorial Church at 2 o'clock on Thursday, and members of the Cercle Francais will act as ushers.

Called to Harvard in 1937, Professor Cons had previously held teaching positions at Bryn Mawr College, Princeton University, University of Illinois, Swarthmore College and Columbia University. One of the first Frenchmen in this country to take an unequivocal stand behind General Charles De Gaulle, he was active in promoting the Free French cause in America, serving as the president of the New England chapter of France Forever.

Professor Cons was born at Lyons, France, in 1879 and graduated from the Sorbonne as Licencie es Letters in 1899. After a period of military service he began his teaching career in France and later in Germany, where he was French tutor at the Royal Court of Prussia. In 1910 he first came to this country.

During the World War, Professor Cons returned to France to serve in the French army for four years as private, corporal, and infantry lieutenant, and was decorated with the Croix de Guerre. He was also a Chevalier do la Legion d'Honneur, and was a member of many French and American learned societies.