Jean Langlais Remembered As the Most Influential on Him, Was Unquestionably Albert Mahaut, Who Had Won a First Prize in César Franck’S Conservatory Class
Childhood and Early Education ! ! ! ! ! CHAPTER!1!! !!!!!Childhood!and!Early!Education!(190751930)! ! Birth at La Fontenelle, February 15, 1907 In the year nineteen hundred and seven, the sixteenth of February at four o’clock in the afternoon, certified by Pierre Mazure, Mayor and Supervisor of the Civil Registry for the community of La Fontenelle, district of Antrain, Ille-et-Vilaine, Jean Langlais, stonemason, twenty-six years old, a resident of the village of La Fontenelle, appeared before us and presented a male child born yesterday, the fifteenth of February, at half past eleven o’clock in the evening to him, he attested, and to Flavie Canto, seamstress, twenty-four years old, his wife, living with him, and to said infant he attested to giving the first names of Jean, François, Hyacinthe. These declarations and this presentation are witnessed by François Canto, cart-maker, twenty-eight years old, and by Arsène Gaignon, teacher, fifty years old, both residents of La Fontenelle. The father and the witnesses signed the present birth certificate with me after it had been read to them. ! This is an excerpt of the official birth certificate of Jean-François-Hyacinthe Langlais, which unequivocally documents the date, time, and place of Jean Langlais’ birth: February 15, 1907, 11:00 pm, at La Fontenelle, France. His parents were Jean Langlais, 26, stonemason; and Flavie Canto, 24, seamstress. Where is La Fontenelle? It’s a small village in the very northern part of the province of Brittany, just two miles from Normandy, and only about twelve from the famous Mont Saint- Michel.
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