Education
Jacques Scherer was educated at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and then studied at the Sorbonne University in Paris, gaining his doctorate.
Jacques Scherer was educated at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and then studied at the Sorbonne University in Paris, gaining his doctorate.
He was Professor of French Literature at the University of Nancy from 1946 to 1954, when he moved to Sorbonne University as Professor of French Literature and Theatre. He left in 1973 on his appointment as Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at Oxford, a position that carried with it an Fellowship of All Souls College, Oxford. In 1979, he returned to France as Professor at University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle.
He retired in 1983 and was made Emeritus Professor.