eccentric French scholar PIERRE MENARD Visits Fenwick
A Mysterious Visit
According to the Fenwick web designers' rigorous, detailed, and scholarly research, Pierre Menard was a Canadian-American fur trader and politician who was elected the first lieutenant Governor of Illinois. What it was that brought him to our illustrious campus in 1933 for a public lecture is a great mystery, especially because -- as Fenwick's own Professor Kyana Charmides notes -- "it is well known that 1933 was the year Menard spent in Bayonne working on his famous cycle of sonnets dedicated to the baroness de Bacourt." (What Dr. Charmides seems not to have known is that Menard was in Baryonne, NJ, not France, in 1933 and thus could have easily made his way north to Fenwick without having to cross the Atlantic.)
Though Menard's reason for coming to campus and the topic that occupied him during the public lecture on the evening of September 26th in Carbuncle Hall remain unknown, young Fenwickian archivists Christine Funkywive née Grosjean, Lotte del Silencio, and Patrick Cordileone have discovered a previously uncatalogued recording of his voice and a clear reproduction of a newspaper article about his visit in Fenwick's Super Secret Vault of Mysteries and Illusions (see below).