Auguste_Lacaussade

Auguste Lacaussade

Auguste Lacaussade

19th century French poet, translator and librarian

Auguste Lacaussade (8 February 1815 – 31 July 1897) was a French poet who also worked as a translator and a librarian.[1]

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Auguste Lacaussade is a French mulatto born in Saint-Denis (Bourbon Island). Some of his works are on the theme of Maroons, such as Les Salaziennes (1839) or Le Lac des Goyaviers et le Piton d’Anchaine in Poèmes et Paysages (1897).[2]

Selected works

Poems

  • Les Salaziennes (1839)
  • Poèmes et paysages (1852)
  • Les Épaves (1861)

Songs

  • Mon Etoile (1842) (feat. D. José Jesús Pérez, composer)
  • La Voix de mes jours passés (1844) (feat. Peppe Gambogi, composer)

References

  1. [1]
    "Auguste Lacaussade". New England Review.
  2. [2]
    "The literature of slavery and maroonage on Reunion island". Portail-Esclavage-Reunion.

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