Alphonse Tavan
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| birth_date = 9 March 1833
| birth_place = Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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Alphonse Tavan (9 March 1833 – 12 May 1905) was a French Provençal poet.
Early life
Career
On 21 May 1854, he co-founded the Félibrige movement with Joseph Roumanille, Frédéric Mistral, 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 7 [https://books.google.com/books?id=IElvBAAAQBAJ&q=Alphonse+Tavan+provencal&pg=PT112]
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.
Death
Legacy
His bust adorns a fountain in Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne.
The Collège Alphonse Tavan, a secondary school in Avignon, is named in his honour.[http://www.education.gouv.fr/annuaire/84-vaucluse/avignon/college/college-alphonse-tavan.html French Ministry of Education: Collège Alphonse Tavan]{{Dead link|date=February 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
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