Peter France
Peter France, FBA, FRSE (born 1935) is a British scholar of French literature and retired academic. He was Professor of French at the University of Edinburgh from 1980 to 1990. After completing a BA and DPhil at Magdalen College, Oxford, he was appointed a lecturer in French at the University of Sussex in 1963; he was eventually promoted to a readership, before he moved in 1980 to the University of Edinburgh to take up the professorship. He left the chair in 1990 and then spent ten years as a University Endowment Fellow before retiring in 2000. Honours and  awards. In 1989, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy and served on the Academy's council from 1992 to 1995; in 2003, he was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Publications. France was joint editor of the "Oxford History of Literary Translation in English" (5 volumes, 2005–10). His other publications include: