On the first day of the school year in 1942, French administrators in Algeria —

implementing antisemitism quotas set by the Vichy government—expelled Derrida from

his lycée. He secretly skipped school for a year rather than attend the Jewish lycée formed
by displaced teachers and students, and also took part in numerous football competitions
(he dreamed of becoming a professional player). In this adolescent period, Derrida found in
the works of philosophers and writers (such as Rousseau, Nietzsche, and Gide) an
instrument of revolt against family and society.[31] His reading also
included Camus and Sartre.[31]
In the late 1940s, he attended the Lycée Bugeaud [fr], in Algiers;[32] in 1949 he moved to
Paris,[3][21] attending the Lycée Louis-le-Grand,[32] where his professor of philosophy
was Étienne Borne.[33] At that time he prepared for his entrance exam to the
prestigious École Normale Supérieure (ENS); after failing the exam on his first try, he
passed it on the second, and was admitted in 1952. [21] On his first day at ENS, Derrida
met Louis Althusser, with whom he became friends. After visiting the Husserl
Archive in Leuven, Belgium (1953–1954), he completed his master's degree in philosophy
(diplôme d'études supérieures [fr]) on Edmund Husserl (see below). He then passed the
highly competitive agrégation exam in 1956. Derrida received a grant for studies at Harvard
University, and he spent the 1956–57 academic year reading James Joyce's Ulysses at
the Widener Library.[34] In June 1957, he married the psychoanalyst Marguerite
Aucouturier in Boston. During the Algerian War of Independence of 1954–1962, Derrida
asked to teach soldiers' children in lieu of military service, teaching French and English
from 1957 to 1959.
Following the war, from 1960 to 1964, Derrida taught philosophy at the Sorbonne, where he
was an assistant of Suzanne Bachelard (daughter of Gaston), Georges Canguilhem, Paul
Ricœur (who in these years coined the term school of suspicion) and Jean Wahl.[35] His
wife, Marguerite, gave birth to their first child, Pierre, in 1963. In 1964, on the
recommendation of Louis Althusser and Jean Hyppolite, Derrida got a permanent teaching
position at the ENS, which he kept until 1984.[36][37] In 1965 Derrida began an association
with the Tel Quel group of literary and philosophical theorists, which lasted for seven years.
[37]
 Derrida's subsequent distance from the Tel Quel group, after 1971, has been attributed [by
whom?]
 to his reservations about their embrace of Maoism and of the Chinese Cultural
Revolution.[38]
With "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences", his contribution
to a 1966 colloquium on structuralism at Johns Hopkins University, his work began to gain
international prominence. At the same colloquium Derrida would meet Jacques
Lacan and Paul de Man, the latter an important interlocutor in the years to come. [39] A
second son, Jean, was born in 1967. In the same year, Derrida published his first three
books—Writing and Difference, Speech and Phenomena, and Of Grammatology.