# Alphonse Tavan

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**Alphonse Tavan** (9 March 1833 – 12 May 1905) was a French [Provençal](/source/Proven%C3%A7al_dialect) poet.

## Early life

Tavan was born in 1833 in Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne.[1]

## Career

On 21 May 1854, he co-founded the [Félibrige](/source/F%C3%A9librige) movement with [Joseph Roumanille](/source/Joseph_Roumanille), [Frédéric Mistral](/source/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Mistral), [Théodore Aubanel](/source/Th%C3%A9odore_Aubanel), [Jean Brunet](/source/Jean_Brunet), [Paul Giéra](/source/Paul_Gi%C3%A9ra) and [Anselme Mathieu](/source/Anselme_Mathieu).[2]

He published a collection of romantic poems in Provençal, *Amour e plour*, in 1876.[1]

He attended the fiftieth anniversary of the Félibrige on 22 May 1904 with Mistral; all the other co-founders had died.[1]

## Death

He died in 1905 in his hometown of Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne.[1]

## Legacy

His bust adorns a fountain in Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne.

The *Collège Alphonse Tavan*, a secondary school in [Avignon](/source/Avignon), is named in his honour.[3]

## References

1. [Alphonse Tavan (1833-1905)](http://data.bnf.fr/12462765/alphonse_tavan/), [Bibliothèque nationale de France](/source/Biblioth%C3%A8que_nationale_de_France)

1. Joep Leerssen, Ann Rigney, *Commemorating Writers in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Nation-Building and Centenary Fever*, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, chapter 7 [\[1\]](https://books.google.com/books?id=IElvBAAAQBAJ&q=Alphonse+Tavan+provencal&pg=PT112)

1. [French Ministry of Education: Collège Alphonse Tavan](http://www.education.gouv.fr/annuaire/84-vaucluse/avignon/college/college-alphonse-tavan.html)[dead link]

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