In the early sixties, Yuan was a visiting professor at the University of Paris and he considerately enrolled his son at a boarding school there so that he could learn French.
一九六○年左右，袁家騮在法國巴黎大學擔任訪問教授，他體貼地把兒子一起帶到巴黎，讓他讀了一年寄宿學校，順便學法文。