Percival Bradshaw Fay

Percival Bradshaw Fay (born August 4, 1890 in Martha's Vineyard , † August 15, 1971 ) was an American Romanist and Medievalist .

life and work

Fay graduated from Haverford College . He received his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in 1912 with the thesis Elliptical partitive usage in affirmative clauses in French prose of the XIVth, XVth and XVIth centuries (Paris 1912). Via the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and the University of Arizona at Tucson , he came to the University of California at Berkeley as a French scholar in 1914 , where he retired in 1958. From 1927 to 1939 he was chairman.

(with Algernon Coleman ) Sources and structure of Flaubert's Salammbô , Baltimore 1914
The use of tu and vous in Molière , Berkeley 1920
(Ed.) Guillaume de saint Pathus (confesseur de la reine Marguerite), Les miracles de saint Louis , Paris 1931
(Ed. With John L. Grigsby) Jouffroi de Poitiers. Roman d'aventures du XIIIe siècle , Geneva 1972

Percival B. Fay Testimonial, in: Romance Philology 11, 1957, p. 191 ff (with list of publications)

personal data
SURNAME	Fay, Percival Bradshaw
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fay, Perceval Bradshaw
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American Romanist and Medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH	4th August 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH	Martha's Vineyard
DATE OF DEATH	15th August 1971