Louis Fasquelle

Louis Fasquelle


Louis Faskell (born September 19, 1808 in Gin, Pas de Calais, October 1, 1862 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) was an American novelist and foreign didacticist of French descent. Faskell studied in France, married an American, and left with her for the United States in 1834. After he did not work as a farmer in Ann Arbor, he worked as a language teacher in Detroit and was appointed the first professor of modern languages. at the University of Michigan in 1846. There he mainly taught French and wrote successful textbooks.