Estève Garcin

Etienne Garcin ( born April 25, 1784 in Draguignan, † November 23, 1859 in Draguignan ) was a French author, journalist, linguist and Provenzalist.

Life and work

Garcin was the first teacher, and later editor of the newspaper La Gazette du Var. He wrote literary texts in Provençal language and works on the Provence (including a bilingual dictionary Provençal).

Garcin left a Provencal Robinson Crusoe, which was published only recently.

Works

• Le nouveau dictionnaire provençal - français, contenant générale ment tous les termes of différentes régions de la Provence les plus difficiles à rendre en français, by means que ceux des plantes, des oiseaux de marine, d'agriculture, the arts mecaniques, les locutions populaires, etc., etc., precede d'un abrégé de grammaire française Provençal -; et suivi de la collection la plus complète the proverbes provençaux, Marseille 1823, Draguignan 1841
• Histoire et de la ville de Marseille topography, Marseille 1834
• Dictionnaire historique et de la Provence topographique ancienne et moderne, 2 vols, 1835 Draguignan, Nyons 1972
• Poésies provençales. Fables et Contes, Paris 1845
• La Provençale Robinson = La Robinsouno Prouvençalo [Roman, bilingual ], ed. by Pierre Chabert ( born 1949 ), Aix -en- Provence 2007
• La Roubinsouno prouvençalo [ Roman], ed. by Jean -Luc Domenge [ * 1962 ], La Farlède 2010 ( foreword by Richard Strambio [ town of Draguignan ]; introduction by René Merle [* 1936 ] )