Auguste Lacaussade
Born8 February 1815 Edit this on Wikidata
Saint-Denis (France) Edit this on Wikidata
Died31 July 1897 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 82)
Paris Edit this on Wikidata
Resting placeMontparnasse Cemetery Edit this on Wikidata
Other namesPoète-pays Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationPoet, translator, librarian, writer Edit this on Wikidata
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Auguste Lacaussade (8 February 1815 – 31 July 1897) was a French poet who also worked as a translator and a librarian.[1]

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

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