15 Facts About Evangeline

Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie is an epic poem by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, written in English and published in 1847.

Evangeline describes the betrothal of a fictional Acadian girl named Evangeline Bellefontaine to her beloved, Gabriel Lajeunesse, and their separation as the British deport the Acadians from Acadie in the Great Upheaval.

Evangeline had recently, in 1841, translated "The Children of the Lord's Supper", a poem by Swedish writer Esaias Tegner, which used this meter.

Evangeline is one of the few nineteenth-century compositions in that meter which is still read today.

Name Evangeline comes from the Latin word "evangelium" meaning "gospel".

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Evangeline became Longfellow's most famous work in his lifetime and was widely read.

Almost a decade later, in 1929, a statue of Evangeline, posed for by silent Mexican film star Dolores del Rio, who starred in the 1929 film Evangeline, was donated to the town of St Martinville, Louisiana, by the film's cast and crew.

Evangeline has been the namesake of many places in Louisiana and the Canadian Maritime Provinces.

Evangeline Trail is a historic route in Nova Scotia that traces the Annapolis Valley, ancestral home of the Acadians.

The Evangeline Trail ends in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia on the southwest coast.

Evangeline was the first Canadian feature film, produced in 1913 by Canadian Bioscope of Halifax.

Evangeline is referenced in the 2009 Disney film The Princess and the Frog, wherein a Cajun firefly named Raymond falls in love with Evangeline, who appears as a star.

Poem was first adapted into a theatrical musical in 1874, as Evangeline; or, The Belle of Acadia, which was a Broadway success through the late 19th century.

An opera based on Evangeline, composed by Colin Doroschuk, debuted in 2012 in reduced concert form, and was first performed in full in 2014 at Opera-Theatre de Rimouski.

Edmonton Opera's Brian Deedrick directed an original musical version of Evangeline, written by playwright Winn Bray and composer Tom Doyle, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, for the Mount Royal College theatre, in 2000.