Jean Joseph Marius Diouloufet (19 September 1771, in

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– 19 May 1840, in

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) was a Provençal

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Biography

As a seminarian, Diouloufet had to leave

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for

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with the advent of the

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. Under the

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, he became a trader in

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. He made friends with

Ambroise Roux-Alphéran Ambroise Roux-Alphéran (1776–1858) was a French public official and historian. Biography Early life Ambroise(-Thomas) Roux-Alphéran was born on 29 December 1776 in Aix-en-Provence. Career He served as clerk of the court of Aix-en-Provence u ...

, who lived on the same street as him. A librarian in Aix, he was dismissed during the

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. His Provençal poetry, fables and tales didn't go unnoticed at the time of publication. His work is pervaded by the use of a very raw strand of Provençal. By the end of his life, he finished a French-

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dictionary. He died from

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.''Les Rues d'Aix'', Roux-Alphéran, 1846-1848.
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Bibliography

*1819 : ''Lei Manhans'' (« silk verses » in provençal), poem in four parts ''(Leis Magnans, pouémo didactique, en quatre chants, eme de notos de la coumpousitien de M. Diouloufet)'' *1823 : Co-writes an anthology, ''Lo Boquet provençau''. *1829 : ''Fablos, contes, epitros et autros pouesios prouvençalos'' (« Fables, poetry, epistles and other provençal poems »). *1841 : ''Le Don Quichotte philosophe ou Histoire de l'avocat Hablard''.Straat Antiquaren Catalogus
Roux-Alphéran also mentions « his pleasant songs, popular throughout the South of France from 1814 to 1815 », namely ''Alléluia'' on the return of the

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