Gaston Vasseur

Gaston Vasseur (* 1904 in Nibas ; † January 25, 1971 ) was a French author, Romance scholar , dialectologist , local historian, lexicographer , grammarian and author in Picardy dialect.

life and work

Vasseur, who grew up in a locksmith's shop, became a primary school teacher. He became interested in local history early on and, inspired by Robert Loriot , in the dialect of his Picardy homeland. He received his doctorate from the Sorbonne in 1948 with the thesis Le Patois de Nibas et de sa région . For thirty years he wrote a chronicle in the Picardy dialect in a local newspaper and wrote dictionaries and a grammar of Picardy. As a contemporary witness, he reported on the German occupation from 1940 to 1944. In 1967, he founded the Association of Picardisants du Ponthieu et du Vimeu (Picardi speakers of Ponthieu and Vimeu ) in Abbeville . In Feuquières-en-Vimeu a school is named after him.

Works

• Histoire d'un village picard. Nibas et ses annexes , Méricourt-Ribemont 1929.
  • Nibas et ses annexes depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours , Paris, Livre d'histoire, 2004.
• Lexique serrurier du Vimeu , Lille / Geneva, Giard / Droz, Paillart, 1950 (introduced by Charles Bruneau ).
• Proverbes et dictons des parlers vimeusiens , Arras, Archives, 1960.
• Dictionnaire des parlers picards du Vimeu (Somme), avec considération spéciale du dialecte de Nibas , Amiens, Musée de Picardie, 1963 (691 pages); Fontenay-sous-Bois, SIDES, 1998 (816 pages).
• Lexique picard du cleftier de Dargnies , Abbeville, Paillart, 1969.
• Grammaire des parlers picards du Vimeu (Somme), avec considération spéciale du dialecte de Nibas , Abbeville, Paillart, 1996 (142 pages).

Contemporary witness

• Sous la botte , Abbeville, Paillart, 1945.
• De mon temps , Abbeville, Duclerq, 1965.
• Vingt-cinq ans après , Abbeville, Lafosse, 1965.
• Evocations , Abbeville, Duclerq, 1968.
• Lettes a min cousin Polyte , Abbeville, Paillart, 2002 (collective script , dialect texts in Picardic dialect, 945 pages).

literature

• Jean Delattre, Gaston Vasseur, in: Bulletin de la Société de Dialectologie Picarde 23, 1972.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gaston Vasseur in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Information on Gaston Vasseur in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
• http://www.encyclopedie.picardie.fr/Vasseur-Gaston.html (biographical note)
• http://lanchron.fr/vasseur.htm#aut (bio-bibliographic note)
• http://lanchron.fr/cp.jpg (press article, with picture)