DONNELLY, Albert Lee Jr. 

Albert Lee Donnelly Jr., 84, of LeChesnay, France, formerly of Hartford, and West Hartford, died Tuesday (August 12, 2008), in Rocquencourt, France. He was the son of the late Albert Lee and Catherine Lennon Donnelly of West Hartford. He was predeceased by his wife, Gisèle LeGalo Donnelly of Versailles, France. He graduated from Noah Webster School, the Loomis Institute, Yale University cum laudeand Trinity College (MA in history). He was in the Signal Corps in World War II, spending 18 months in the European Theatre and taking part in the invasion of Normandy. Following the war, he was a teacher of English at the Honeywell School of Bethesda, MD, and did graduate work in the government and law at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He was also employed by the Central Intelligence Agency. In France he became a teacher of English and History at the American School of Paris, from 1952 to 1989, and was director of their Middle School from 1965 to 1967. During summers he came to Connecticut and taught English in the Summer School at Loomis. He was a writer and translator for several French publications and for the American Embassy USIS Bulletin. He collaborated with the French historian André Maurois, in writing Maurois' Parallel Histories of the United States and the USSR in the Twentieth Century. He is survived by two sons, Paul and Bénédict Donnelly; three daughters, Marie-Annick dePins, Elizabeth Ruby and Claire Beillevaire; by 16 grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren. He is also survived by his brother Thomas L. Donnelly of West Hartford. Funeral services were held August 18 at the Church of St. Antoine in Lechesay, France.