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Corpus of French-speaking literature from the Indian Ocean

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A COMPLETE CORPUS OF FRANCOPHONE LITERATURE FROM INDIAN OCEAN COUNTRIES

With the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

This Corpus gives access, as completely as possible, to the whole of Francophone written and oral literature from the Indian Ocean, from the origins (18th century) to Independence (1960, or death of authors).

The literary production of the countries of the Indian Ocean was considerable as early as the 18th century in Reunion Island and Mauritius, and the 20th century was particularly rich for Madagascan literature. In the 18th and 19th centuries a number of these works were published on local printing presses by local editors and their distribution was limited. Some editions are now known only by rare copies in a few libraries, in private collections or in family archives in the native country.
The oral literature of the Indian Ocean was collected by intellectuals or by religious communities. It is to be found in specialised volumes or dispersed in didactic works (dictionaries, grammars, anthologies) from which we have extracted this literary heritage, which is both popular and scholarly, often very ancient.

This Corpus is based on a great work of bibliographical search, collection and establishment of the texts, which required some twenty years.

No library, public or private, or research centre posseses a collection of this importance, which gives easy access to scrupulous editions of a little-known but very rich literature.

The text
The basic text chosen for the electronic edition corresponds to the original text as it has come down to us.

Editing levels
The original text is edited in its identical original form. The French version of oral literary works is accompanied by a version in the original language, when that version exists.

CONTENTS

• Countries
Comores and Mayotte, Reunion Island, Mauritius, Madagascar, Seychelles

• Writers
Ahnee, Jean Selmour; Algernon, Henry - pseudonyme de Henry Hitié; Antelme, Henri; Arékion, Jérôme; Arvoy, J. G. d'; Azéma, Étienne; Azéma, Georges; Bailly, Édouard; Baissac, Charles Basile; Barrow, Geo; Baudin, E.; Bell, A. A.; Bellet, A.; Bellier, Émile; Bernard, E.; Bernard, Laure; Bertin, Antoine de; Blackburn, Thomas W.; Blaise, pseudonyme de Lélio Michel; Blaize, Jean; Bonnefoy, Théophile; Bouais, Jean-Claude - pseudonyme de René Noyau; Bouchaud, Émile; Boucherat, Jean; Boucherat, Julien - pseudonyme: Francis Luiney; Boucherville, Anatole de; Bourbon, Melchior; Bouton, Louis; Brey, Lucien - pseudonyme de Walter Acton; Brunet, Eugène; Brunet, Louis; Carié, Édouard Clément; Cascavelle, pseudonyme de Émile Daruty de Grandpré; Castellan, Charles; Castellan, Émilien; Cazamian, André; Célestin, Louis Albert; Céré-Barbé, Hortense de; Champon, Christian; Charoux, G.; Chauvin, R. P. Dom Paul; Chazal, Edmond de; Chazal, Évenor de; Chrestien, François; Claverie, Serge; Constant, Moïse; Crémazy, Pascal; Dalais, Henri; Daurat, Cyril P.; David, Maurice; Dayot, Eugène; Decotter, N.; Delafaye, Volsy; Dierx, Léon; Don-Bastien, Elmour; Drouhet, Édouard; Drouin; Ducray, Félix Giblot; Ducrocq, Louis; Dupont, Évenor et divers; Dussercle, R. P. Roger; Duvergé, Fernand; Edmond, J.; Épinay, Adrien d'; Épinay, Prosper d'; Esnouf, Auguste - pseudonyme Savinien Mérédac; Focard, Volsy; Fromet de Rosnay, Édouard; Galdemar, Ange - pseudonyme Le Petit Chose; Galéa, Philippe; Gaud, Alphonse - pseudonyme Pooka; Gaudin de Lagrange, Anne-Mary de; Gautrez, Victor; Georges-François, Pierre-Claude; Girodroux, E.; Gonin, Hyacinthe Joachim; Grenier, Prosper Victor; Grimaud, Abbé; Guerquin d'Auriac, A.; Gueuvin, Charles; Gueuvin, Elisa; Harel, Alfred; Hart, Robert-Edward; Hart, Walter-Edward; Herchenroder, Alcide; Hermann, Jules; Héry, Louis; Hitié, Évenor; Hitié, Seymour; Houat, Louis Timagène; Huët de Froberville, Barthélemy; Huron, Joseph; Husson, Hyacinthe; Jacquier, Louis Jules; Janson, Edgar; Jerningham, Hubert; Jubien, Victor; Juste, Bénédict; L'Homme, Léoville; La Serve, Charles Robinet de; Lacaussade, Auguste; Lacaze, Honoré; Lapeyre, R.P. Louis; Lapierre, A.; Laurent, Édouard; Laval, Eudoxe; Laval, Henri; Laventure, F.; Laverdant, D.; Lavignac, Henri; Lavoquer, Saint Greux; Le Blanc, Marie; Le Juge de Segrais, Xavier; Le Roy, Gustave; Leal, Charles Henry; Leblanc, Eugène; Leblond, Marius-Ary; Lebret, Lucien; Lechelle, A.; Leconte de Lisle, Charles-Marie; Leguat, François; Lélio, Michel; Léonard; Letourneur, Ernest; Litten, Carlo; Lolliot, Henry; Lorquet, Hubert Louis; Magé, E.; Magny, Henry Jr.; Magon de Saint-Elier, Ferdinand; Mahy, François de; Maingard, Auguste; Maingard, Josselin-Jean; Mallac, Albert; Mallefille, Félicien Jean-Pierre; Mamet, Évenor; Martial, Arthur; Matou, pseudonyme Petit d'Hauterive?; Maure, André; Méry, Maurice; Michel, Edwin; Michel, L.-E.; Michelan, J.; Michèle, pseudonyme de Mme Auguste Esnouf; Monniot, Victorine; Montforand, Pierre de; Morangis, pseudonyme de Edgar Auber; Morel, Fernand Louis; Moutou, Wilfrid - pseudonyme Jean Villon; Noël-Jeandet; Ollivry, Raoul; Orieux, Charles Arthus; Ovary, d'; Ozoux, Élie Welcome; Ozoux, François Léonce Louis; Pageot, L.; Panon Desbassayns, Henri-Paulin; Parny, Évariste; Pascau, Armand; Peyrebère, Charles; Piat, Paul; Piston, Eugène; Pitot, Albert; Pitot, C. Thomi; Pitot, Georges P.; Pitot, Henry; Pitot, Victor; Rabearivelo, Jean-Joseph; Raffray, J. M.; Rattazzi, Marie, Mme - pseudonyme de Marie Letizia Bonaparte Wyse; Rauville, Hervé de; Razanajatovo, F.; Renoyal de Lescouble, Jean-Baptiste; Ricquebourg, Jean; Robin, Ary - pseudonyme Robinary; Rowlandson, A. Hutton; Saint-Amand, François; Saint-Clément, P. de; Saint-Pern, E. G. de; Savaron, Calixte; Savinien Mérédac, pseudonyme d'Auguste Esnouf; Schœlcher, Victor; Soumet, Alexandre; Thiébault-Sisson, François; Tidy, F. G.; Touche du Poujol, H.; Toulet, Paul-Jean; Tranquille, Joseph Ignace; Vaussy, Émile; Vigoureux de Kermorvan, Édouard; Villèle, Auguste de; Vincent, Félicien; Vinson, Auguste; Virieux, Édouard; Voïart, Philippe Jean Marcel; Vollard, Ambroise; Wantzlœben, A.

FIELDS OF INTEREST

Literatures, French, Francophonie, languages, history, ethnology, sociology

EDITORIAL TEAM

Author of the databases: Claude Blum
With the collaboraton of:
Philippe Derendinger (University of Basel); Brigitte Springmann (Basel); Boubou Seck (Saint-Louis in Senegal)