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HUGH DAVIDSON PRIZE

  • Deadline: February 15, 2021. Please email the document to Ms. Halvorsen at kh6f@virginia.edu by 5pm.
  • Format: Each essay will be between 2000 and 3000 words in French, double-spaced in Times New Roman font (8-12 pages), and saved as a PDF file.
  • Who is eligible? All undergraduate students at the University who are not native speakers of French.
  • Topic: Any topic concerning French writings prior to the year 1800 will be eligible. The essays submitted to this competition may be based on graded work for a course or written as original essays. We encourage you to ask the professor of the course how to improve or develop the paper into an essay.
  • Prize: the winner will receive $500.
  • For more details, have a look at https://french.as.virginia.edu/undergraduate under “Awards and Honors.”