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 Ille-e ...

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département In the administrative divisions of France, the department (french: département, ) is one of the three levels of government under the national level ("territorial collectivities"), between the administrative regions and the communes. Ninety- ...

Origins

Angot was born in Montsûrs. At age eleven, he entered a small seminary in

Précigné Précigné () is a commune in the Sarthe ''département'' in the region of Pays de la Loire in north-western France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises ...

. 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 Bau ...

and an aunt lived among them. In 1863 he returned to the grand seminary. He died in Saint-Fraimbault de Lassay.

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1917 deaths 1844 births People from Mayenne 19th-century French historians French male non-fiction writers {{france-historian-stub