Frédéric Mistral, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône (13)

On the steps leading up to the Basilique de Notre-Dame de la Garde – a building which dominates the marseillais skyline) is a plaque dedicated to Frédéric Mistral (1830–1914), who was a member of the Académie de Marseille and of course won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1904. The five-line verse in Provençal (Mistral being one of the founder members of Le Félibrige) is a hymn to Marseille. The verse is taken from the book Li isclo d'or (1875), which was translated into French as Les Îles d'or ('The Golden Islands').

My Frédéric Mistral posts:
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Frédéric Mistral at Le Mas du Juge
Frédéric Mistral: Mireille
Frédéric Mistral in Maillane
Le Pavillon de la Reine Jeanne, Les Baux-de-Provence
Frédéric Mistral in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer
Frédéric Mistral in Saint-Giniez, Marseille
Frédéric Mistral, Marseille
Frédéric Mistral in Avignon
Frédéric Mistral in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence
Frédéric Mistral in Grambois
Frédéric Mistral in Saint-Michel-l'Obsevatoire
Frédéric Mistral in Pertuis