Fernand Lechanteur

Fernand Leon Auguste Lechanteur , known as Gires-Ganne , born the June 20th 1910 with Agon-Coutainville and deceased the May 7th 1971 with Caen, buried with Agon-Coutainville, is a Poète and writer Normand.

Life and work

Linguist and ethnologist of formation, German professor (aggregate in 1939), headmaster of the college the Glassmaker of Saint-Lo, then College Malherbe of Caen, Fernand Lechanteur wrote an imposing work in Normand, language in favor which it did not cease militating and of which it developed the current orthography, while taking as a starting point Georges Métivier.

He is the founder, with in particular André Louis, of association and the review Parlers and popular traditions of Normandy (1968), and the author between-others of the Billet of Gilles (chronic signed Maître Gire, in the Echo of the English Channel 1948 - 1949), traditional Normandy (gathering of the chronicles published in the Press of the English Channel of 1953 with 1961, published in 1983). He wrote Det Skandinaviske Normandy (“Scandinavian Normandy”, in the daily newspaper Samtiden , Oslo 1948), and Es set winds of Cotentin (1972), offered approximately six articles to Ground Norman (re-examined created in 1946 by Raymond Lelièvre).

He also signed Maître Gire (name of a Tisserand grandfather), Björn af Hringefirði : “the Bear of the Mount-Saint-Michel”, Samuel (of the norrois Samval: “choice”), S.T. or H.T. ( Samuel or La Hague Trancheleu , pun enters the La Hague and Hagi: “to break, chop, gash”).

Two of its texts, Manoun of the Hâots-Winds and Es set winds , were put in music by association Magène in 1989 and 1994.

A monument with its memory, of 32 stones raised out of granite, arranged in esnèque form of , engraved in particular in Fuþark and imitation Runes, was inaugurated on May 9th 1976, in Mielle of the point of Agon, between the His and the Mont Saint-Michel.

Works

  • Es Set Winds of Cotentin: poetic work of Fernand Lechanteur , ED. Andre Louis, Coutances, OCEP, 1972
  • the Literature patoisante , Saint-Pierre-of-Salerno, Brionne, Monfort, 1984
  • traditional Normandy , Coutances, OCEP, 1983,1953
  • For a correct use of the names of our communes especially Normans , Saint-Lo, 1960
  • Foreword of Zabeth; novel in language Norman by Andre Louis, Coutances, OCEP, 1969

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