Achille Maffre de Baugé, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAchille Maffre de Baugé
French poet
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Place of Birth: Marseillan, Occitania, France
About Achille Maffre de Baugé
- Achille Maffre de Baugé (16 March 1855 – 1928) was an Occitan poet, native of Marseillan in the French département of l'Hérault). A friend of Nobel Prize winner Frédéric Mistral, he is best known for Dièzes et Bémols (1873) (his first collection of verse) and Terre d'Oc (1908).
- He was a collaborator on the monthly review magazine Chimère, of which twenty issues appeared, a large number of which are now lost. On the front of the Marseillan house in which he was born there is a portrait of de Baugé and a stone plaque with an extract from his poem Marseillan (from Terre d'Oc) glorifying his village: Poussière de soldats, cendre de troubadours, Pendant mille ans notre âme en ta glèbe est entrée Tes roses sont mes sœurs, et tes vignes dorées Du sang dont bat mon cœur se gonfleront toujoursA primary school in Marseillan has been named "Maffre de Baugé" in his honour.
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