16 March 2018

Ernest Deseille in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais (62)

'ERNEST DESEILLE
HISTORIEN DU BOULONNAIS,
POÈTE ET JOURNALISTE,
EST NÉ DANS CETTE MAISON
LE 14 MAI 1835'

Ernest Deseille (1835–89) was Boulogne-sur-Mer's archivist, and wrote a large number of publications, amongst which are the poem Un exploit de Roland, ou Pourquoi le diable a-t-il des cornes ?  (1860), a glossary of Boulogne sailors' patois (1978), and a 118-page book on the Egyptologist Auguste Mariette (see above), which he called 'Auguste Mariette: Souvenir sur l'Inauguration de la sa statue'. After his death, his widow left a gift to Boulogne-sur-Mer of over ten thousand books and manuscripts.

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