Athénée Louisianais

The Athénée Louisianais (est. 1876) was a francophone literary society in New Orleans, Louisiana. Founding members were P. G. T. Beauregard, Oliver Carrière, Paul Fourchy, J. G. Hava, Auguste Jas, Sabin Martin, [fr], Armand Mercier, Léon Queyrouze, and Charles Turpin.^[1] It published a magazine, Comptes-Rendus de l'Athénée Louisianais, and began an essay contest in 1878.^[2] It organized lectures by Eugène Brieux, Hughes Le Roux, Henri de Régnier, and [fr], among others.^[2] Around 1913 the group operated from headquarters in the Hibernia Bank Building on Gravier Street.^[3] As of 1929 it belonged to the Fédération de l'Alliance française.^[2]

References[]

^ Fortier 1914.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Caulfield 1929.
^ Soard's New Orleans City Directory. 1913.

Bibliography[]

Comptes-Rendus de l'Athénée Louisianais (in French), New Orleans, OCLC 63211851 – via HathiTrust. 1876-1975
Alcée Fortier (1904). "French literature of Louisiana". History of Louisiana. Goupil & Co. pp. 259+.
Alcée Fortier (1914), "Athénée Louisianais", Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form, Century Historical Association
Ruby Van Allen Caulfield (1929). French Literature of Louisiana. New York: Columbia University. OCLC 4174484.
Rien Fertel (2014). "Alfred Mercier, the Athenee Louisianais, and the Fight to Preserve the French Language". Imagining the Creole City: The Rise of Literary Culture in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans. Louisiana State University Press. pp. 49–70. ISBN 978-0-8071-5824-1.