François Chrestien

François Chrestien was born in 1767 and lived in Mauritius, where he was civil commissioner of the district of Flacq, then Creole interpreter to the courts and the court of appeal. A Franco-Mauritian and a music enthusiast, he was the first to give written literature to the island's Creole language, and the Réunionese writer Louis Héry followed his example. He died in 1846, and his funeral almost took on the character of a national event.

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• PoetryLes Essais d'un bobre africainFrançois Chrestien · 1822not translated into EnglishLiterature