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Mistral, Frédéric

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Mistral, Frédéric (1830–1914)

Provenĉal poet. In 1854, with Joseph Roumanille, Théodore Aubanel, and four other poets, he founded the Félibrige, an association for the cultivation of Provençal language and literature. Among the most noteworthy of Mistral's works are Miréio (1859) and Calendau (1867), epic poems on Provençal themes; Lis Isclo d'Or/Islands of Gold (1875) and Lis Oulivado (1912), volumes of lyric poems; Lou Pouemo dou Rose/The Song of the Rhone (1897) and Lou Trésor dou Félibrige (1878–86), a dictionary of Provençal and related dialects. He shared the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1904 with José Echegaray.



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