Edmond de la Fontaine - Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
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Edmond de la Fontaine, better known by his pen name of Dicks, was a Luxembourgish jurist, poet, and lyricist, known for his work in the Luxembourgish language. Edmond is considered the national poet of Luxembourg. Edmond was born in this house.
Waymark Code: WM19054
Location: Luxembourg
Date Posted: 10/31/2023
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The plaque on the side of the house commemorates the fact that Edmond was born in this house.
"He is considered the national poet of Luxembourg, and along with Michel Lentz and Michel Rodange, one of the most important figures in the history of Luxembourgian literature. In addition, his Luxemburger Sitten und Bräuche was one of the most influential early ethnographies on the Luxembourgian people.
Fontaine was the third son of Gaspard-Théodore-Ignace de la Fontaine, who was appointed Governor of Luxembourg in 1841, and subsequently served as the country's first Prime Minister in 1848. Fontaine studied law at Liège, and spent a further year at Heidelberg pursuing Germanic studies from 1844 until 1847, before becoming a lawyer in 1850. From 1867 until 1870, he served as mayor of Stadtbredimus, in eastern Luxembourg's Moselle Valley, and served as a Justice of the Peace in Vianden from 1881 and 1889.[4] He lived in Stadtbredimus Castle from 1858 to 1881 where he would live for the last decade of his life.
Works
Lyrics
Liss, du bass mäi Caprice
Den Hexemeeschter
Poetry
D’Vulleparlament am Grengewald 1848
Plays
De Wëllefchen a de Fiischen
D'Vulleparlament am Gréngewald
Am Wanter
Komeidisteck
Ethnography
Luxemburger Sitten und Bräuche, Luxemburg: Brück 1883 (in German)
Die luxemburger Kinderreime, Luxemburg: Bück 1877"
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The text on the top plaque reads
JCI Naquit
Edmond de la Fontaine
Poete National
24 Juillet 1823 - 24 Juin 1891
Geburthaus Fum Dicks
The text on the bottom plaque reads
Am Kulturjor 1995
En undenken an e merci
fir eisen nationaldichter
Dicks
Actioun Letzebuergesch - eig sprooch
staatsbeamten - CGPP