Marion Frances Chevalier

Marion Frances Chevalier (January 21, 1902 – February 17, 1990)Birth date from [http://cat.opal-libraries.org:2082/search?/aChevalley%2C+J./achevalley+j/-27%2C0%2C0%2CB/frameset&FF=achevalier+marion+frances+1902&1%2C1%2C Ohio Private Academic Libraries catalog entry]. 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, even though it was the first drama derived from the works of Rabelais.{{citation|last=Chevalier|first=Marion F.|title=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|year=1933|publisher=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. 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.

A professorship in French and Comparative Literature was established in her name at the University of Southern California. The professorship has been held by scholars such as Lydie Moudileno and Peggy Kamuf.{{Cite web |url=http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/engl/people/faculty1003397.html |title=USC College Department of English |access-date=2007-11-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071127022853/http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/engl/people/faculty1003397.html |archive-date=2007-11-27 |url-status=dead }} A photograph of her can be found in the Johns Hopkins University Historical Photograph Collection.[http://www.library.jhu.edu/collections/specialcollections/archives/photo_subjects.html Historical Photo Collection subject listing] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20121210215211/http://www.library.jhu.edu/collections/specialcollections/archives/photo_subjects.html |date=2012-12-10 }}.