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, Alfred Mercier , Armand Mercier, Léona Queyrouze, and Charles Turpin. It published a magazine, Comptes-Rendus de l'Athénée Louisianais, and began an essay contest in 1878. It organized lectures by Eugène Brieux , Hughes Le Roux , Henri de Régnier , and Firmin Roz [fr ] , among others. 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.
See also
1882 issue of Comptes-Rendus de l'Athénée Louisianais
References
Bibliography
Comptes-Rendus de l'Athénée Louisianais (in French), New Orleans, OCLC 63211851 – via HathiTrust . 1876-1921
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 .
External links
Records of Athénée Louisianais at The Historic New Orleans Collection