Dr Tony Shaw: Félibrige

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6 June 2019

Frédéric Mistral in Pertuis (84)

Libellés : Félibrige, Mistral (Frédéric), Pertuis (84), Provence, Vaucluse (84)

La Santo-Estello is the Félibrige festival-cum-congress which takes place in a town in one of the thirty-two départements in the south of France: this year is the turn of Pertuis in Vaucluse. The festival promotes regional culture, and it is of course fitting that Frédéric Mistral should boldly feature on the poster advertising the event which is between 7 to the 11 June 2019.

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

20 July 2017

Théodore Aubanal, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône (13)

Libellés : Aubanel (Théodore), Bouches-du-Rhône (13), Félibrige, Marseille (13), Provence

Théodore Aubanel (1829–1886) also (along with Frédéric Mistral) has a plaque dedicated to him near the Basilique Notre-Dame de la Garde, and it's also written in Provençal: as the plaque here states, Aubanel (whose grave I (almost unbelievably) wasn't allowed to photograph in Saint-Véran cemetery in Avignon) was a founder member of Le Félibrige. In 1850 Aubanel met Jenny Manivet (or Zani), the love of his life, although the two were unable to reveal their love for each other: Zani joined a convent. His first poems were published in 1851 in Li Prouvencalo, and in 1860 Aubanel published La mióugrano entre duberto (literally 'The Half-Opened Pomegranate'), concerning his lost love of Zani. It was well received in literary circles, although local Catholic organisations condemned it. Aubanel married another woman (Joséphine Mazen) the following year.

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

Libellés : Bouches-du-Rhône (13), Félibrige, Marseille (13), Mistral (Frédéric), Provence

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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20 June 2016

Théodore Aubanel in Avignon (84)

Libellés : Aubanel (Théodore), Avignon (84), Félibrige, Provence, Vaucluse (84)

'THÉODORE AUBANEL

POÈTE PROVENÇAL

1829 – 1886'

We missed Théodore Aubanel's grave in the Cimetière de St-Véran (it didn't seem to be in the division where it should have been), missed his house in the Square St Pierre, but here is his bust in the Square Agricol Periquier (about whom more later).

11 November 2013

Jardin des Félibres, Sceaux

Libellés : Félibrige, Hauts-de-Seine (92), Île-de-France, Provence, Sceaux

'ICI
REPOSE LE CORPS
DE FLORIAN
HOMME DE LETTRES'

Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1755–94) was a playwright, novelist, poet and fabulist born in Gard, Occitan, and who died here in Sceaux, about seven miles south of Paris. Voltaire was his great-uncle by marriage.

He is buried close to Saint Jean- Baptiste church, which is at the side of the Jardin des Félibres (Provençal poets) in Sceaux, where every year, at the end of spring, the Fêtes félibréennes take place.

The Félibrige is an association founded by Frédéric Mistral and six other Félibres – Joseph Roumanille, Paul Giéra, Théodore Aubanel, Alphonse Tavan, Anselme Mathieu and Jean-Gabriel Brunet. Its aim is to safeguard and promote the language and culture of the langue d'oc. The seat of the Félibrige is the Museon Arlaten (Provençal for 'Musée d'Arles'), dedicated to the ethnography of the area, and it was established in 1896 by Frédéric Mistral and later installed in the hôtel de Laval-Castellane after he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1904.

'LE VINGT CINQ JUIN MIL NEUF CENT CINQUANTE
À L'OCCASION DU CINQUANTENAIRE
DE LA FÉDÉRATION RÉGIONALISTE FRANÇAISE
FONDÉE PAR J. CHARLES BRUN
LA VILLE DE SCEAUX
A ÉTÉ SOLENNELLEMENT RECONNUE ET PROCLAMÉE
CITÉ FÉLIBRÉENNE'

In the garden itself, there are busts of ten Félibres.

'MAURICE FAURE
1850 – 1919
FONDATEUR DE LA CIGALE
ET DE LA SOCIÉTÉ DES FÉLIBRES
À PARIS
FONDATEUR À SCEAUX
DES FÊTES DE FLORIAN
MINISTRE DE L'INSTRUCTION PUBLIQUE'

'À
FRÉDÉRIC
MISTRAL

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LA SOCIÉTÉ
DES FÉLIBRES
DE
PARIS'

'THÉODOR AUBANEL
1828 – 1886

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AU GRAND POÈTE
PROVENÇAL
L'UN DES FONDATEURS
DES FÊTES FÉLIBRÉENNES
DE
SCEAUX'

'À
PAUL MARIÉTON
CHANCELIER DV FÉLIBRIGE
CE BVSTE A ÉTÉ ÉLEVÉ
PAR LES SOINS
DE SES AMIS
ET DV
PROVENÇAL DE PARIS'

'CLOVIS HUGUES
1851 – 1907

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CE MONUMENT A ÉTÉ ÉLEVÉ
PAR SOUSCRIPTION PUBLIQUE
SUR L'INITIATIVE
DU PROVENÇAL DE PARIS
ET AVEC LE CONCOURS
DES FÉLIBRES CIGALIERS
ET MEMBRES DES
ASSOCIATIONS MÉRIDIONALES

28 MAI 1911'