How to Pronounce Marion Frances Chevalier
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Jan 21, 1902 Died on 17 Feb 1990 (aged 88)
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About Marion Frances Chevalier
- Marion Frances Chevalier (January 21, 1902 – February 17, 1990) 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.
- 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.
- A photograph of her can be found in the Johns Hopkins University Historical Photograph Collection.
