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), Bibliothèque nationale de France
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
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 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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