Achille Maffre de Baugé

Achille Maffre de Baugé (16 March 1855 – 1 July 1928) was an Occitan poet and writer, a native of Marseillan in the French département of l'Hérault.

A friend of Nobel Prize winner Frédéric Mistral, he is best known for Dièzes et Bémols (1873) (his first collection of verse) and Terre d'Oc (1908). He was a collaborator on the monthly review magazine Chimère, of which twenty issues appeared, a large number of which are now lost.

On the front of the Marseillan house in which he was born there is a portrait of de Baugé and a stone plaque with an extract from his poem Marseillan (from Terre d'Oc) glorifying his village:


 * Poussière de soldats, cendre de troubadours,
 * Pendant mille ans notre âme en ta glèbe est entrée,
 * Tes roses sont mes sœurs, et tes vignes dorées
 * Du sang dont bat mon cœur se gonfleront toujours

A primary school in Marseillan has been named "Maffre de Baugé" in his honour as well as a street in the town.

His grandson is the writer and member of the European Parliament (1979 to 1989), Emmanuel Maffre-Baugé (1921 to 2007).

Works

 * Dièzes et bémols, poésies, 1870-1873 (1873)
 * Sonnets : L'Attente. L'Amitié. Prométhée. Accalmie (1873)
 * Le Narghiléh (1883) Online text
 * Chères amours (1892)
 * Aux Arènes (1895)
 * Les Gants blancs (1896)
 * Sirvente de mai (1897)
 * L'Oiseau bleu (1901)
 * L'Iris bleu (1907)
 * Terre d'Oc (1908)
 * Le Promontoire (1927)
 * Talks
 * J. Barbey d'Aurevilly, 25 April 1889
 * Du Sens international chez les provincialistes, discours prononcé au banquet des félibres à Cette, 31 May 1896
 * Molière et le régionalisme, discours prononcé à la Grange-des-Prés, 9 August 1897