Abel Lefranc

Maurice Jules Abel Lefranc (27 July 1863 – 26 November 1952) was a historian of French literature, expert on Rabelais, and the principal advocate of the Derbyite theory of Shakespeare authorship.

Worked with the working with the National Archives.

Lefranc was elected to the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1927.

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