Peter Bayley | |
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Born | Redruth, Cornwall | 20 November 1944
Died | 10 April 2018 | (aged 73)
Nationality | British |
Partner | Angus Bowie |
Awards | Commandeur de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques |
Academic background | |
Education | Redruth Grammar School |
Alma mater | Emmanuel College, Cambridge |
Academic work | |
Discipline | French literature |
Sub-discipline | 17th-century French literature, sermons and essays |
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Peter James Bayley (20 November 1944 – 10 April 2018) was a British scholar of French literature, specialising in 17th-century French literature, sermons and essays. He was Drapers Professor of French at the University of Cambridge from 1985 to 2011, and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge from 1971 until his death.[1][2][3][4]