Amélie Gex

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Amélie Gex

Amélie Gex (born October 24, 1835 in La Chapelle-Blanche , Savoy ; † June 16, 1883 in Chambéry ) was a Savoyard and (since 1860) French writer in the Franco-Provençal language .

Life

Amélie Gex was the daughter of the doctor and winemaker Marc-Samuel Gex. She grew up in La Chapelle-Blanche, the nearby town of Chambéry and Challes-les-Eaux . After the death of her father in 1876, she continued the family's wine-growing business. In the 1870s she began to be active as a writer. In later years she lived in Chambéry again.

Amélie Gex was a supporter of the republican and anti-clerical movement since the partition of the Sardinian-Savoyard lands . Since 1877 she has been able to print her poems in the republican magazine Le Père André under the pseudonym "Dian de la Jeânna". It was only from 1879 that her works appeared in various media and as independent publications under her own name.

Amélie Gex wrote poems and stories that deal partly with life in Savoy and partly with mythological material. At first she wrote for the people of the Alpine region in the Savoy dialect ( patois ) and later also in French in order to reach a wider audience with her writings.

Amélie Gex is one of the early authors of Franco-Provencal (Arpitan) literature.

Works

  • Le Long de l'an. Chansons en patois savoyard avec la traduction française en regard. Chambery 1879.
  • Reclans de Savoué. Chambery 1879.
  • Poésies, Chambéry 1880.
  • Lo cent ditons de Pierre d'Emo. Chambery 1882.
  • Vieilles gens et vieilles choses. Histoire de ma rue de mon village. Chambery 1885.
  • Feuilles mortes. Chambery 1894.
  • Fables. 1898.

literature

  • François Vermale: Un Poète Savoyard. Amélie Gex (1835-1883). Chambery 1923.
  • David Oscar: Amélie Gex. 1926.
  • Philippe Terreaux: La Savoie jadis et naguère, d'Amélie Gex à Henry Bordeaux. 1990.