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Charles-Étienne Arthur Gayarré was born on January 9, 1805, in New Orleans of Spanish and French descent.
His great-grandfather, Don Esteban Gayarre, came to Louisiana with Ulloa in 1766 as royal comptroller and commissary, and the family continued to play an important part in the affairs of the colony.
Don Esteban’s grandson, Don Carlos, married Marie Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Étienne de Boré.
Charles Étienne (christened Carlos Esteban) spent his childhood on Boré’s sugar plantation, gaining his education at a nearby school for the sons of rich planters.
In 1825, he graduated with distinction at the College of Orleans (New Orleans).
During 1826-29, Gayarre studied law in the office of William Rawle of Philadelphia and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar.
At the age of twenty-one, Gayarré published an influential pamphlet opposing - chiefly because of its proposed abolition of capital punishment - the criminal code prepared by Edward Livingston. After his return to New Orleans, he published in 1830 an Essai historique sur la Louisiane, in two volumes, largely a translation of Martin's History of Louisiana. Covering the period to 1815, the work was considered so valuable by the legislature that 600 copies were distributed to the various school boards of the state. Elected in the same year by an almost unanimous vote to represent New Orleans in the legislature, Gayarré was appointed, in 1831, assistant attorney-general and, in 1832, presiding judge of the city court of New Orleans. His promising political career reached its climax in his election to the United States Senate in 1835 but was then broken into by ill health which compelled his immediate resignation. He went at once to France for medical treatment and remained there until October 1843. During this long stay abroad he began his Histoire de la Louisiane (published in two volumes, 1846-1847), written in French in order to preserve the exact form of the original documents; it was little more than a series of extracts strung together on a thread of narrative, coming down only to 1769. After this piece of rather arid scholarship, Gayarré went to the other extreme of over-popularization in his Romance of the History of Louisiana (1848), a work of mingled history and fiction, which he later ill-advisedly incorporated with a slight change of title as the first volume of his larger History, begun in 1851. With the second and third volumes, Louisiana: Its History As a French Colony (1852) and History of Louisiana: The Spanish Domination (1854), Gayarré at last came into his own and succeeded in uniting historical accuracy with vivid narrative and description. Meanwhile he had resumed his political career: he was elected to the state legislature in 1844; and in 1846, after reëlection to the legislature, was appointed secretary of state, an office which then included the superintendency of public education, and which, together with that of treasurer, constituted a "Board of Currency" with control over the banks of the state. Gayarré filled this important office acceptably, being reappointed in 1850; during his incumbency he persuaded the legislature to purchase numerous foreign documents as the foundation of a state library. In 1853 he was defeated, probably by fraudulent votes, as an independent candidate for Congress; in his Address to the People of the State on the Late Frauds Perpetrated at the election (1853) he gave good reasons for believing that as many as 2, 000 out of the 6, 000 New Orleans votes were spurious. Still smarting over this injustice, he wrote in 1854 The School for Politics, a remarkably mirthless satiric novel. He took part in the formation of the Know-Nothing party in Louisiana, but in June 1855 was excluded as a Roman Catholic from the general council of the party in Philadelphia. Therewith his political aspirations ended. He supported the Confederacy at the outbreak of the Civil War but early came to realize the hopelessness of its cause and in 1863 advocated the emancipation and arming of the slaves. His inherited fortune was lost during the war and the rest of his days were passed in poverty. In this period of gloom, however, he completed his four-volume series with his History of Louisiana: The American Domination (1866), produced a brilliant psychological study in Philip II of Spain (1866), and wrote two artless but interesting novels--the largely autobiographical Fernando de Lemos: Truth and Fiction (1872) and Aubert Dubayet, or The Two Sister Republics (1882), a tale of the American and French revolutions. He served as reporter of the decisions of the supreme court of Louisiana, 1873-1876. For twenty-eight years, 1860-1888, he was president of the Louisiana Historical Society. Both before and after the Civil War he was distinctly the leader in the notable literary efflorescence of Louisiana, and at his death it was generally recognized that the state had lost its foremost citizen.
Charles served as reporter of the decisions of the supreme court of Louisiana, 1873-76. For twenty-eight years, 1860-88, he was president of the Louisiana Historical Society. Both before and after the Civil War, he was distinctly the leader in the notable literary efflorescence of Louisiana, and at his death, it was generally recognized that the state had lost its foremost citizen.
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Charles supported the Confederacy at the outbreak of the Civil War but early came to realize the hopelessness of its cause and in 1863 advocated the emancipation and arming of the slaves.
Charles was married to Mrs. Annie Sullivan Buchanan of Jackson, Missouri, who died without issue in 1914.
