L’Esprit de PROVENCE
Mar 22, 2017
2 minutes
I sing the love of a Provençal maid. How through the wheat fields of La Crau she strayed…
So begins , a tragic love story in verse penned in Provence’s Occitan dialect by the Nobel Poet Laureate Frédéric Mistral in 1859. The narrative captures many fascinating aspects of Provençal culture in the poet’s use of local customs and traditions to add colour to his narrative. It is a principle that
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