Gaston Lavalley (29 November 1834 in
Vouilly
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. Gaston studied law before being made chief curator of the town library in
Caen
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in 1870. Specialising in the history of Normandy, he contributed to many local and national journals and wrote many books, of which the main one is ''Légendes normandes''.
Bibliography
*''Légendes normandes'', 1867
*''Après l'auto-da-fé''. 1872
*''Aurélien'', 1863
*''Arromanches et ses environs'', 1867
*''Les Balayeuses'', 1871
*''Les Carabots, scènes de la Révolution'', 1874
*''Caen, son histoire et ses monuments'', 1877
*''Les Compagnies du papeguay, particulièrement à Caen'', 1881
*''Le Drame du camp de Vaussieux'', 1889
*''Le Général Nu-Pieds'', 1898
*''Le Duc d'Aumont et les Cent-jours en Normandie, d'après des documents inédits'', 1899
*''Le duc d'Aumont et les Cent-Jours en Normandie'', 1899
*''Le grand Carnot, chansonnier'', 1900–1910
*''Un chauvin de la science'', 1900
*''Une émeute originale des mineurs de Littry en 1792, d'après des documents complètement inédits'', 1904
*''La Censure théâtrale à Caen en l'an VII'', 1908
*''L'Arme blanche sous la Révolution, étude historique'', 1912
*''Trois journées de Napoléon à Caen en 1811, et passage de Marie-Louise en 1813'', 1913
*''Les Duellistes de Caen de l'an IV à 1848 et le bretteur Alexis Dumesnil'', 1914
External links
Gaston Lavalley on French French Wikisource
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1834 births
1922 deaths
People from Isigny-sur-Mer
20th-century French historians
French art historians
History of Normandy
French male non-fiction writers
19th-century French historians