| Alphonse Tavan | |
| Birth Date: | 9 March 1833 |
| Birth Place: | Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France |
| Death Place: | Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France |
| Occupation: | Poet |
Alphonse Tavan (9 March 1833 – 12 May 1905) was a French Provençal poet.
Tavan was born in 1833 in Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne.[1]
On 21 May 1854, he co-founded the Félibrige movement with Joseph Roumanille, Frédéric Mistral, Théodore Aubanel, Jean Brunet, Paul Giéra and Anselme Mathieu.[2]
He published a collection of romantic poems in Provençal, Amour e plour, in 1876.[1]
He attended the fiftieth anniversary of the Félibrige on 22 May 1904 with Mistral; all the other co-founders had died.[1]
He died in 1905 in his hometown of Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne.[1]
His bust adorns a fountain in Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne.
The Collège Alphonse Tavan, a secondary school in Avignon, is named in his honour.[3]