![]() At 46, Langlois is one of the institute’s youngest affiliates. That morning, he was headed to the Institut de France, a learned society founded in 1795 for the cream of French intelligentsia. But he is also perhaps the most versatile-and unorthodox-biblical scholar of his generation. He had recently laid down the bass tracks on an album of Celtic music by the French composer Hélène Goussebayle, and that summer he would perform in France with the Christian rock singer Chris Christensen. As it turns out, Langlois is a professional musician, having played bass on some 20 French studio albums, from soul to gospel to pop. He wears his long brown hair in a leonine mane, and when I caught up with him on the Pont des Arts he was sporting a pink sweater and salmon-colored pants. ![]() If you spotted Michael Langlois walking along the Seine, in Paris, as I did one overcast morning last spring, you could be forgiven for mistaking this scholar of the ancient Middle East for the bassist in Def Leppard.
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