Background
Alphonse Tavan was born in 1833 in Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne.
Alphonse Tavan was born in 1833 in Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne.
On May 21, 1854, he co-founded the Félibrige movement with Joseph Roumanille, Frédéric Mistral, Théodore Aubanel, Jean Brunet, Paul Giéra and Anselme Mathieu. He published a collection of romantic poems in Provençal, Amour e plour, in 1876. He attended the fiftieth anniversary of the Félibrige on May 22, 1904 with Mistral.
All the other co-founders had died.
He died in 1905 in his hometown of Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne. His bust adorns a fountain in Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne.
The Collège Alphonse Tavan, a secondary school in Avignon, is named in his honour.
Félibrige.
