
Alphonse-Victor Angot, or l'abbé Angot (10 February 1844 – 10 June 1917), was a French historian who specialized in the history of
Mayenne
Mayenne ( ) is a landlocked department in northwest France named after the river Mayenne. Mayenne is part of the administrative region of Pays de la Loire and is surrounded by the departments of Manche, Orne, Sarthe, Maine-et-Loire, and Il ...
(
département
In the administrative divisions of France, the department (, ) is one of the three levels of government under the national level (" territorial collectivities"), between the administrative regions and the communes. There are a total of 101 ...
).
Origins
Angot was born in
Montsûrs.
At age eleven, he entered a small seminary in
Précigné. His mother was a lodger with the Augustines in
Baugé
Baugé () is a former commune in the Maine-et-Loire ''département'' in western France. On 1 January 2013, it was merged with the former communes of Montpollin, Pontigné, Saint-Martin-d'Arcé and Le Vieil-Baugé to create the commune of Baug ...
and an aunt lived among them. In 1863 he returned to the grand seminary. He died in
Saint-Fraimbault de Lassay.
References
1917 deaths
1844 births
People from Mayenne
19th-century French historians
French male non-fiction writers
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