Peter France
Peter France, FBA, FRSE, is a British academic and scholar of French literature, who served as Professor of French at the University of Edinburgh from 1980 to 1990.
Life
The son of Edgar France, he attended Bradford Grammar School before going up to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated as BA and DPhil. He was appointed a Lecturer in French at the University of Sussex in 1963, later being promoted as Reader. In 1980 he transferred to the University of Edinburgh where he took up the professorial chair in French, which he relinquished in 1990, becoming a University Endowment Fellow before retiring in 2000.Honours and fellowships
- Officier, Palmes académiques
- Chevalier, Légion d'honneur ;
- FBA
- FRSE.
Publications
- Racine's Rhetoric.
- Rhetoric and Truth in France.
- Poets of Modern Russia, Cambridge Studies in Modern Literature.
- Diderot, Past Masters.
- Politeness and its Discontents: Problems in French Classical Culture, Cambridge Studies in French.
- The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French.
- The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation.
- Mapping Lives: The Uses of Biography.