Marion Frances Chevalier

Marion Frances Chevalier (January 21, 1902 – February 17, 1990)^[1] was a philologist best known for her discovery in the Bibliothèque d'Orléans of The Adventures and Marriage of Panurge, a play by Pousset de Montauban that had remained unknown for 250 years and was the first drama derived from the works of Rabelais.^[2] Her analysis of this play formed the basis of her Ph.D. thesis, in 1933, from Johns Hopkins University, under the supervision of Henry Carrington Lancaster. She is the namesake of a professorship in French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California, currently held by Peggy Kamuf.^[3] A photograph of her can be found in the Johns Hopkins University Historical Photograph Collection.^[4]

References

1. ^ Birth date from Ohio Private Academic Libraries catalog entry.
2. ^ Chevalier, Marion F. (1933), A Dramatic Adaptation of Rabelais in the Seventeenth Century: Les Aventures et Le Mariage de Panurge (1674) by Pousset de Montauban, with a Study of his Life and Other Plays, Johns Hopkins University . Review by C. D. Zdanowicz (1934), Modern Language Notes 49(7): 483–484. Review by Robert V. Merrill (1934), Modern Philology 32(1): 97. Review by F. J. Tanquerey (1935, in French), Modern Language Review 30(2): 250–251.
3. ^ USC College Department of English
4. ^ Historical Photo Collection subject listing.

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Name	Chevalier, Marion Frances
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Date of birth	January 21, 1902
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Date of death	February 17, 1990
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