Gaston Lavalley, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gaston Lavalley

French art historian

Date of Birth: 29-Nov-1834

Place of Birth: Calvados, Normandy, France

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1922

Profession: historian, art historian

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Gaston Lavalley (29 November 1834 in Vouilly – 1922) was a French writer, historian and art historian.
He was a son of the engineer Louis-Auguste Lavalley-Dupéroux (1800–1885) and brother to Georges-Aimar Lavalley (1830–1882), later director of Caen's Musée des Antiquité and writer on religious buildings in the diocese of Bayeux.
Gaston studied law before being made chief curator of the town library in Caen in 1870.
Specialising in the history of Normandy, he contributed to many local and national journals and wrote many books, of which the main one is Légendes normandes.