Alphonse Tavan (9 March 1833 – 12 May 1905) was a French Provençal poet.

Early life

Tavan was born in 1833 in Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne.Alphonse Tavan (1833-1905)
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Career

On 21 May 1854, he co-founded the

Félibrige The ''Félibrige'' (; in classical Occitan, in Mistralian spelling, ) is a literary and cultural association founded in 1854 by Frédéric Mistral and other Provençal writers to defend and promote the Occitan language (also called the ) and ...

movement with

Joseph Roumanille Joseph Roumanille (; 8 August 1818 – 24 May 1891) was a Provençal poet. He was born at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône), and is commonly known in southern France as the father of the Félibrige, for he first conceived the idea of r ...

Frédéric Mistral Joseph Étienne Frédéric Mistral (; oc, Josèp Estève Frederic Mistral, 8 September 1830 – 25 March 1914) was a French writer of Occitan literature and lexicographer of the Provençal form of the language. He received the 1904 Nobel ...

, Théodore Aubanel, Jean Brunet, Paul Giéra and Anselme Mathieu.Joep Leerssen, Ann Rigney, ''Commemorating Writers in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Nation-Building and Centenary Fever'', London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, chapter

/ref> He published a collection of romantic poems in Provençal, ''Amour e plour'', in 1876. He attended the fiftieth anniversary of the Félibrige on 22 May 1904 with Mistral; all the other co-founders had died. Chateauneuf de Gadagne 5 by JM Rosier

Death

He died in 1905 in his hometown of Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne.

Legacy

His bust adorns a fountain in Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne. The ''Collège Alphonse Tavan'', a secondary school in Avignon, is named in his honour.French Ministry of Education: Collège Alphonse Tavan
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References

1833 births 1905 deaths 19th-century French poets French male poets People from Vaucluse 20th-century French poets 19th-century French male writers 20th-century French male writers {{France-poet-stub