Author · Mauritius
Charles Baissac
Died in 1892
Charles Baissac was born in Port-Louis, on the island of Mauritius, in 1831, into a family of French origin; his grandfather taught French there. Sent to France as a child, he studied at the lycée Henri-IV, began medicine and then turned to literature. Back in Mauritius in 1854, a tutor and then, from 1870, a teacher at the Royal College, he taught French there. He published in 1880 the first solid study of Mauritian Creole, received the Legion of Honour and died at Beau-Bassin on 3 December 1892, a few months after a cyclone had destroyed his house and his manuscripts.
In the catalogue 1
- TaleLe Folk-lore de l'île MauriceCharles Baissac · 1888not translated into EnglishLiterature