Franel was a number theorist who gave introductory calculus lectures in French at the ETH. Maybe the ETH offered courses in different languages, because of its location in a multilingual country. Does anybody know? Anyway, for a little more information, see this excerpt from Jerry Alexanderson's The Random Walks of George Polya.
John Stillwell
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