[Adrien Emmanuel]. American poet, born in New Orleans, LA, on the 13th of February 1813; educated at the College of Nantes, France; studied law; was ordained a Roman Catholic priest, and passed most of his life in the service of a Choctaw mission and in a seminary of that church in New Orleans. He wrote in both French and English. Among his works are Les Savanes, Poesies Américaines (1841); Wild Flowers (1848); La Thébaïde en Amérique (1852); Poëmes Patricotiques (1860); and a satire on Cable’s Grandissimes. He died in New Orleans on the 15th of July 1887.
