Athénée Louisianais

The Athénée Louisianais (est. 1876) was a francophone literary society in New Orleans, Louisiana. Founding members were P. G. T. Beauregard, Oliver Carrière, Paul Fourchy, J. G. Hava, Auguste Jas, Sabin Martin, Alfred Mercier, Armand Mercier, Léona Queyrouze, and Charles Turpin.^[1] It published a magazine, Comptes-Rendus de l'Athénée Louisianais, and began an essay contest in 1878.^[2] It organized lectures by Eugène Brieux, Hughes Le Roux, Henri de Régnier, and Firmin Roz [fr], among others.^[2] Around 1913 the group operated from headquarters in the Hibernia Bank Building on Gravier Street.^[3] As of 1929 it belonged to the Fédération de l'Alliance française.^[2]

References

Comptes-Rendus de l'Athénée Louisianais (in French), New Orleans, OCLC 63211851 – via HathiTrust. 1876-1921
Alcée Fortier (1904). "French literature of Louisiana". History of Louisiana. Goupil & Co. pp. 259+.
Alcée Fortier (1914), "Athénée Louisianais", Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form, Century Historical Association
Ruby Van Allen Caulfield (1929). French Literature of Louisiana. New York: Columbia University. OCLC 4174484.
Rien Fertel (2014). "Alfred Mercier, the Athenee Louisianais, and the Fight to Preserve the French Language". Imagining the Creole City: The Rise of Literary Culture in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans. Louisiana State University Press. pp. 49–70. ISBN 978-0-8071-5824-1.