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Alphonse-Victor Angot, or l'abbé Angot (10 February 1844 – 10 June 1917), was a French historian who specialized in the history of
Mayenne Mayenne () is a landlocked department in northwest France named after the river Mayenne. Mayenne is part of the administrative region of Pays de la Loire and is surrounded by the departments of Manche, Orne, Sarthe, Maine-et-Loire, and Ille-et ...
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Origins

Angot was born in Montsûrs. At age eleven, he entered a small seminary in
Précigné Précigné () is a commune in the Sarthe ''département'' in the region of Pays de la Loire in north-western France. See also *Communes of the Sarthe department The following is a list of the 354 communes of the Sarthe department of France ...
. His mother was a lodger with the Augustines in
Baugé Baugé () is a former commune in the Maine-et-Loire ''département'' in western France. On 1 January 2013, it was merged with the former communes of Montpollin, Pontigné, Saint-Martin-d'Arcé and Le Vieil-Baugé to create the commune of Baugé-en ...
and an aunt lived among them. In 1863 he returned to the grand seminary. He died in Saint-Fraimbault de Lassay.


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1917 deaths 1844 births People from Mayenne 19th-century French historians French male non-fiction writers {{france-historian-stub