Estève Garcin (in

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''Étienne Garcin'', born 16 April 1784 – died 23 November 1859 in

Draguignan Draguignan (; oc, Draguinhan) is a commune in the Var department in the administrative region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (formerly Provence), southeastern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department and self-proclaimed "capital of Ar ...

) was an

Occitan language Occitan (; oc, occitan, link=no ), also known as ''lenga d'òc'' (; french: langue d'oc) by its native speakers, and sometimes also referred to as ''Provençal'', is a Romance languages, Romance language spoken in Southern France, Monaco, Ital ...

writer from

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. Garcin was a teacher and political monarchist who is the author of two major works: * ''La Roubinsouna Prouvençalo'' (''La Robinsona porvençala'' in classical Occitan) is a very important novel in Occitan literature which was written in the

provençal dialect Provençal (, , ; french: provençal , ; oc, provençau or ) is a Romance language, either considered as a variety of Occitan or a separate language, spoken by people in Provence and parts of Drôme. Historically, the term Provençal has been ...

from the

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department. The novel deals with a group of Provençal who reconstruct their civilization after a shipwreck on an island in the

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. * A French and Provençal dictionary that aimed to help Occitan speakers to switch to French. It has been noted that these works are contradictory in nature given that one strengthens the Occitan literature and language by providing it with a novel, while the second is a tool that explicitly aims at helping Occitan readers switch to French.

Bibliography

*Garcin, Etienne. ''La Roubinsouno prouvençalo''. Les Presses du Midi : 2010.

External links

Garcin's dictionary on Google Books
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