Colleagues and former students will gather to discuss the work of the eminent professor of French and philosophy.

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Todd, right, with the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, whom he came to regard as something of a surrogate father - Jean-Claude FRANCOLON/Gamma-Rapho via Getty ...

Olivier Todd, who has died aged 95, achieved celebrity in France as a war correspondent, intimate of Sartre and biographer of Camus; he was also a familiar face on the BBC in the 1960s, analysing ...