Jessie Weston and Gaston Paris

Jessie Weston, when traveling around Europe studying medieval literature, studied under the renown medieval literature specialist Gaston Paris. Paris began his teaching career as a grammar teacher at a private school. Later, after his father retired, he followed his father's footsteps and was a professor of medieval French literature at the College de France in 1872. He later was admitted to the Academy of Inscriptions in 1876, and in 1896 he was admitted to Académie française. In 1895 he was named the director of the College de France. Here is where he gained his reputation as a great medieval literature specialist. Towards the later parts of his life, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901, 1902, and 1903 before dying in 1903. As you can see Gaston Paris was very accomplished, and if Weston learned from him she would surely have been well versed in medieval literature. Thus you can see how Weston could be frustrated for not getting the respect she may deserve because of her studies.