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Gaston Lavalley
Gaston Lavalley (29 November 1834 in Vouilly – 1922) was a French writer, historian and art historian. He was a son of the engineer Louis-Auguste Lavalley-Dupéroux (1800–1885) and brother to Georges-Aimar Lavalley (1830–1882), later director of Caen's Musée des Antiquité and writer on religious buildings in the diocese of Bayeux. Gaston studied law before being made chief curator of the town library in Caen in 1870. Specialising in the history of Normandy, he contributed to many local and
by cutting his own throat at his house on the night of 2/3 October 1830; he was 75 years old. He was buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery, in Paris.
References.
- Gaston Lavalley, "Le Peintre Robert Lefèvre, sa vie et son œuvre", Caen, L. Jouan, [s.d.], (c 1920).
- "Mémoires de la Société des sciences, arts et Belles-Lettres de Bayeux", 1901, p. 121-2
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