Le professeur Charles Malgouverné (1811-1881), une personnalité oubliée de la francophonie de Iași, et ses réflexions sur l’altérité moldave
Professor Charles Malgouverné (1811-1881), a Forgotten Figure in the Francophonie of Iași, and His Reflections on Moldavian Otherness

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on a study of the memoirs of Charles Malgouverné, a former French teacher and rector of the ‘Mihăileană’ princely academy in Iași. He is at the origins of the Romanian French-speaking community, and in particular that of the town of Iași, alongside other French tutors and teachers who came to live and work locally in princely and boyar families, in schools and boarding houses that they often created. We were lucky enough to obtain his memoirs at the end of 2024, thanks to the kindness of one of his descendants. Written in 1873, they have not yet been published and have come down to us in typescript. They contain a wealth of information about his biography, his picturesque journey as far as Moldavia, as well as his activities as a teacher in the town of Iași and as a player in the Romanian French-speaking world. So many facets of the link that is discursively constructed and woven between his French identity and the Moldavian otherness he becomes acquainted with and to which he ends up belonging.

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