Paul Giéra (22 January 1816 – 26 April 1861) was a French
Provençal poet.
Early life
Paul Giéra was born on 22 January 1816 in
Avignon
Avignon (, , ; or , ; ) is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southeastern France. Located on the left bank of the river Rhône, the Communes of France, commune had a ...
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GeneaNet His father was Jean Baptiste Joseph Giéra and his mother, Marie Madeleine Marguerite Crillon.
Career
Giéra was the owner of the
Château de Font-Ségugne in
Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne.
On 21 May 1854, he invited
Joseph Roumanille,
Frédéric Mistral
Joseph Étienne Frédéric Mistral (; , 8 September 1830 – 25 March 1914) was an Occitan writer and lexicographer of the Provençal form of the language. He received the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of the fresh origina ...
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Théodore Aubanel,
Alphonse Tavan,
Jean Brunet and
Anselme Mathieu, where they founded the
Félibrige movement.
[Joep Leerssen, Ann Rigney, ''Commemorating Writers in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Nation-Building and Centenary Fever'', London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, chapter ]
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Death
He died on 26 April 1861 in his hometown of Avignon.
Legacy
The Collège Paul Giéra in Avignon was named in his honour. It closed down in 2009 due to lack of public funding.[Unanimité surprise pour le collège Giéra d'Avignon](_blank)
''Vaucluse Matin'', 27/09/2009
The Gymnase Paul Giéra in Avignon was also named in his honour.[Mappy](_blank)
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References
1816 births
1861 deaths
Writers from Avignon
19th-century French poets
French male poets
19th-century French male writers
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