Émile Lauvrière, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French historian of Acadia
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Place of Birth: Avranches, Normandy, France
About Émile Lauvrière
- Émile-Joseph Lauvrière (3 December 1866, Avranches – 1954, Paris) was a French historian of Acadia. Emile Lauvrière started his studies in Paris and completed them in London.
- A doctor in Literature specializing in the English domain, he wrote a dissertation on Edgar Allan Poe, entitled Edgar Poe, un génie morbide later published under the title Edgar Poe, sa vie et son œuvre ; étude de psychologie pathologique (Paris: Alcan, 1904).
- He then wrote a biography of Alfred de Vigny, before embarking on a course of study similar of Tennyson's versification. Upon studying Evangeline, Longfellow's poem which follows an Acadian girl during the time of the Expulsion of the Acadians.
- Lauvrière discovered, on this occasion, the history of the Acadian people, and reoriented his scholarly interest.
- This new research subject led him to publish La Tragédie d'un peuple; histoire du peuple acadien de ses origines à nos jours (Paris: Bossard, 1922). Lauvrière was to spend the next three decades studying Acadian history, but he would go beyond academic research by founding the Comité France-Acadie dedicated to providing grants to Acadians wishing to complete their studies in France, as well as sending French-language books to Acadia.
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