t be repaid.

NEW YORK, March, 1901.

CONTENTS

PART FIRST

THE REVIVAL OF THE PROVECAL LANGUAGE

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Introduction. Life of Mistral 3
II. The Felibrige 24
III. The Modern Provencal, or, more accurately,
The Language of the Felibres 43
IV. The Versification of the Felibres 75
V. Mistral's Dictionary of the Provencal Language.
(Lou Tresor dou Felibrige) 92

PART SECOND

THE POETICAL WORKS OF MISTRAL

I. The Four Longer Poems 99
1. Mireio 99
2. Calendau 127
3. Nerto 151
4. Lou Pouemo dou Rose 159
II. Lis Isclo d'Or 181
III. The Tragedy, La Reino Jano 212

PART THIRD

CONCLUSIONS 237

APPENDIX. Translation of the Psalm of Penitence 253

BIBLIOGRAPHY 259

INDEX 265

PART FIRST

THE REVIVAL OF THE PROVENCAL LANGUAGE

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

The present century has witnessed a remarkable literary phenomenon in
the south of France, a remarkable rebirth of local patriotism. A
language has been born again, so to speak, and once more, after a sleep
of many hundred years, the sunny land that was the cradle of modern
literature, offers us a new efflorescence of poetry, embodied in the
musical tongue that never has ceased to be spoken on the soil where the
Troubadours sang of love. Those who began this movement knew not whither
they were tending. From small beginnings, out of a kindly desire to give
the humbler folk a simple, homely literature in the language of their
firesides, there grew a higher ambition. The Provencal language put
forth claims to exist coequally with the French tongue on French soil.
Memories of the former glories of the southern regions of France