John Herbert Nelson, Charl Gayarre, Historian and Romancer, The Sewanee Review, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Oct., 1925), pp. 427-438
Contents:
- CHARL GAYARRé
- “UNF FOR THE AGE”: CHARL GAYARRé, THE CONSERVATIVE AS SATIRIST
- GAYARRE HISTORY CLUB
- GAYARRE
- CHARL GAYARRE SCHOOL, 2515 NORTH ROBERTSON STREET
- CHARL GAYARRé
CHARL GAYARRé
A nservative every sense of the term, Charl Gayarré mourned the passg of the aristocratic society of the Old South and was never able to rencile himself to the egalarian mor of post-war Ameri. The rol of romantic historian and bg satirist perfectly sued him, for he looked back nostalgilly to the past and believed that he, as a prcipled statman was “unf for the age.” (say by Stephen M. Klugewicz) * charles gayarre *
Charl Gayarré. New Orleans native Charl Gayarré wrote the first plete history of Louisiana: a four-volume seri entled Louisiana History (1866).
Many of the ponents for this work me out of public lectur that Gayarré began givg the 1840s. Charl Étienne Arthur Gayarré was born New Orleans on January 9, 1805. His French mother, Marie Boré, and Spanish father, Carlos Gayarré, were Creol the earlit sense of the term: native-born people of European scent.
After his father’s ath 1813, Gayarré grew up on the large plantatn of his maternal grandfather, Étienne De Boré, outsi the cy lims of New Orleans (the area is now Audubon Park).
“UNF FOR THE AGE”: CHARL GAYARRé, THE CONSERVATIVE AS SATIRIST
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Gayarré hered slav om this grandfather and remaed a slaveholr until emancipatn; he believed the ferry of Ain Amerins all his life. Gayarré’s first publitn, Disurs adrsé à Législature, en réfutatn du rapport M.
[Edward] Livgston on the Aboln of the Death Penalty), was issued pamphlet form by New Orleans prter Benjam Levy 1826, and lnched Gayarré’s lerary reer. Essai historique sur la Louisiane, published 1830, was Gayarré’s first attempt to wre Louisiana history; he followed this wh Histoire la Louisiane 1846–47 and Romance of the History of Louisiana (1848). Gayarré’s personal life was domated by his public service.
GAYARRE HISTORY CLUB
The missn of the Gayarre History Club of C.E. Byrd High School is to promote historil awarens and quiry at C.E. Byrd and the muny. Gayarre History Club hosts an annual amic nference for sendary stunts to prent and publish origal rearch. * charles gayarre *
Governor Isaac Johnson appoted Gayarré secretary of state 1846, and Governor Joseph Walker reappoted him 1850. As secretary of state, Gayarré regnized the importance of llectg and prervg Louisiana lonial rerds, and was stmental velopg the lonial rerds llectn wh the Louisiana Historil Society and the Louisiana State Library. Like many Amerins trated wh the leadg polil parti, Gayarré joed the Know-Nothg Party, a nativist party whose anti-immigrant and racial beliefs appealed to him.
GAYARRE
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But Gayarré was a loyal Catholic and, although elected as a legate to the 1855 natnal Know-Nothg Party nventn, he was refed admissn bee of his relig beliefs. Gayarré strongly supported slavery and Louisiana’s secsn om the Unn 1861.
Gayarré served as a legate om Louisiana’s Unn Democratic party to the natnal uny nventn at Philalphia 1866, and ran unsuccsfully for the U.
CHARL GAYARRE SCHOOL, 2515 NORTH ROBERTSON STREET
Durg the latter legislative term, state voters ratified a new nstutn that accelerated the Amerinizatn of the state, stroyg a way of life that Gayarré cherished. Gayarré’s historil and fictnal wrg was primarily a sile until fancial adversy forced him to rely on his wrg for his livelihood. At the age of fifty-one, Gayarré married Shadie Ann Sullivan Buchannan, the widow of Henry Buchannan of Columb, Mississippi.
They named Ronl after the Spanish regn that was home to Gayarré’s anctors. (Gayarré’s only child was born of Delphe Le Mare, a slave his hoehold when Gayarré was twenty-one. The child, named Charl Gayarré, was baptized the St.
CHARL GAYARRé
In his senr years, Gayarré was disuraged about his life’s work and had fancial difficulti. Kg enuraged Gayarré’s wrg his later life and sought fancial support for him through many schem and solicatns. At his ath on Febary 11, 1895, Gayarré was poor but well rpected by his iends and lleagu as the father of Louisiana history and one of the state’s lerary pneers.