 Following the beginnings of the re-integration of postwar Europe, however, Latin revivalism gained some strength.One of its main promoters was the former dean of the University of Nancy (France), Prof. Jean Capelle, who in 1952 published a cornerstone article called "Latin or Babel" in which he proposed Latin as an international spoken language.Capelle was called "the soul of the movement" when in 1956 the first International Conference for Living Latin () took place in Avignon, marking the beginning of a new era of the active use of Latin.