Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature

Columns: Name | Years | Education | Notes
Gustave Rudler | 1920-49 | University of Paris | Rudler had previously taught at the Sorbonne and at Bedford College , London . He was particularly interested in the life and works of Benjamin Constant , the subject of his doctoral thesis as well as later publications . He also published editions of works by Jean Racine and Molière , and studied the historian Jules Michelet . Rudler was the co-founder and first editor of the French Quarterly , a periodical that ran from 1919 to 1932 which was the first English-language periodical to cover French literary matters . He was regarded at Oxford as a devoted teacher , lecturing entirely in French and asking questions of his audience that had to be answered in French | Jean Seznec | 1950-72 | École Normale Supérieure , Paris | Seznec taught at the University of Cambridge and the French Institute in Florence before the Second World War , when he moved to America to be a professor at Harvard University | Jacques Scherer | 1973-79 | École Normale Supérieure , Paris , and Sorbonne University , Paris | Scherer was previously Professor of French Literature at the University of Nancy and then at the Sorbonne . After leaving Oxford , he was a professor at University of Paris III : Sorbonne Nouvelle | Robert Shackleton | 1979-86 | Oriel College , Oxford | Shackleton was Librarian of Brasenose College , Oxford from 1948 to 1966 and Bodley 's Librarian ( head of Oxford 's Bodleian Library ) from 1966 to 1979 | Jean-Yves Tadié | 1988-91 | École Normale Supérieure , Paris | Tadié lectured at universities in Caen , Tours and Paris ( University of Paris III : Sorbonne Nouvelle ) before serving as head of the French Department at Cairo University from 1972 to 1976 . He was director of the French Institute in London from 1976 to 1981 . His publications include a biography of Proust ( in French and English versions ) | Malcolm Bowie | 1992-2002 | University of Edinburgh and University of Sussex | Bowie taught at the University of Cambridge before becoming Professor of French Literature and Language at the University of London . After leaving Oxford , he was Master of Christ 's College , Cambridge ( the head of the college ) from 2002 to 2006 | Michael Sheringham | 2004-15 | University of Kent | Sheringham previously taught at the University of Kent ( where he was Professor of French Literature from 1992 to 1995 ) and at Royal Holloway , University of London ( where he was Professor of French from 1995 to 2004 ) | Catriona Seth | 2015 onwards | University of Oxford ( Magdalen College ) and Université de Paris-Sorbonne | Seth was a lecturer at the Université de Rouen before becoming Professor of 18th-century French Literature and Language at the Université de Lorraine

Example questions:
How long was the book on Proust 's life by the Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature whose term ended 1991 ? | Which university did the Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature starting 2004 lecture at in 1992 through 1995 ? | Which academic group 's research did the Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature starting 1950 expand upon ? | Which London group did the Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature whose term ended 2002 both establish and direct ? | Whose biography did the Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature whose term ended 1986 write a standardized treatment of ?

Answers:
800-page | University of Kent | Warburg Institute | Institute of Romance Studies | Montesquieu 's