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Place of Birth: Nîmes, Occitania, France
About Antoine Bigot
- Antoine Hippolyte Bigot (February 27, 1825 in Nîmes – January 7, 1897 in Nîmes), was a French writer, poet, and translator in the Nîmes Provençal dialect of Occitan. Born into a Protestant family, Antoine Bigot was able to be educated and therefore escape the manual farm labor so prevalent at that time and was intended to learn a trade.
- In 1850, he met Jean Reboul and later Louis Roumieux, with whom he launched a literary career.
- In 1854, Frédéric Mistral and his friends founded the Provençal Occitan writers' association Félibrige and Bigot was invited to join.
- He wanted to praise his city (Nîmes) in his own language, his "impure dialect that is disappearing".
- In 1861, he became a corresponding member of the Academy of Nîmes, and a full member in 1864.
- In 1865, he was a member of the Consistory of the Reformed Church.
- He died at his home on Rue Cart on January 7, 1897, and was buried in the Protestant cemetery in Nîmes, leaving behind a reputation as a poet.
- In 1903, due to the influence of his friend and successor Jean Mejean, a bust of Bigot was erected near the statue of Jean Reboul at the bottom of the grand staircase of the Jardins de la Fontaine.
- Gaston Doumergue, the government minister and fellow Protestant, was present at the ceremony.
- Bigot (Protestant and Republican) has often been seen as opposed (legitimately or not) to Reboul (Catholic and Royalist).
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