Célimène Gaudieux

Born with Saint-Paul the April 20th 1807 and died in this same commune the July 13rd 1864, Célimène Gaudieux was a landlord locality the Saltworks which were still used and are used of symbol and MUSE for the Poésie and with the Popular culture S of the island of the Réunion.

Biography

Wire of slave S freed, his/her father is a Creole of the name of Louis Edmond Jeance born in Saint-Paul the September 28th 1789 and which will die in Saint-Pierre the December 12th 1854. Born towards 1790, his/her mother fore-mentioned Candide or Marie-Ingenuous is as for it a slave whom his father frees in 1811, of which he then serves like domestic and which he ends up marrying the April 26th 1830 by recognizing their two daughters Marie-Monique and Marie-Céliste. Born with Jans for name from young girl, the first is then 23 years old. It is about that which one calls today Célimène.

It enjoys to be praised to be the grand-daughter of Évariste de Parny, poet réunionnais who would have had a connection with his maternal grandmother, a Malagasy slave . She marries certain Pierre Gaudieux in any case the October 3rd 1839 with Saint-Paul. This one will die in 1852 leaving Célimène then 45 years old with five dependant childrens. It receives the assistance of Joseph then the Hare, a sugar owner to trust “ to have been able to be of some utility to downward, even of the left hand, the poet Parny ”.

Posterity

Even if she did not attend the school, Célimène is equipped with a sharp intelligence which she nourishes while attending of many sugar owners. She handles soon the verb with elegance, whether it is in Prose or Towards. This capacity is worth to him the admiration of people of passage who go down to the relay from station that it holds with her husband on the by-pass zone which connected by the High Saint-Paul to Saint-Leu to one time when the Cape Lahoussaye was insuperable. He acted as Marshal-shoeing there to the service of the many public cars in six places harnessed with horses or mules which transport luggage, goods and letters. On its side, it distracts the travellers in their playing from the Guitare and by interpreting texts of its invention on popular airs with the mode.

Since, its art in particular inspired the poet Jean Albany. And Célimène enjoys an important posterity still today. One baptized in 2000 a new piton ic Volcan formed on the sides of the Piton of the Furnace to his name. In 2002, a college saint-paulois takes officially his name.

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