Théodore Aubanel (
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:''Teodòr Aubanèu''; 26 March 1829 – 2 November 1886) was a
Provençal poet. He was born in
Avignon in a family of printers.
Aubanel started writing poetry in French but quickly switched to
Provençal, due to the influence of
Joseph Roumanille
Joseph Roumanille (; 8 August 1818 – 24 May 1891) was a Provençal poet. He was born at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône), and is commonly known in southern France as the father of the Félibrige, for he first conceived the idea of r ...
. He is known primarily for ''La Miougrano entreduberto'' (1860, ''The Split Pomegranate'') and ''Li Fiho d'Avignoun'' (1885, ''The Young Ladies of Avignon''), two collections of lyric poems.
He died in Avignon.
See also
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Provençal literature
Occitan literature (referred to in older texts as Provençal literature) is a body of texts written in Occitan, mostly in the south of France. It was the first literature in a Romance language and inspired the rise of vernacular literature throu ...
References
*Jean Albert Bédé and William Benbow Edgerton
''The Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature.''Columbia University Press
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, 1980. ; p. 36
External links
Life of Aubanel on Notreprovence.fr
Occitan poets
19th-century French poets
1829 births
1886 deaths
Writers from Avignon
French male poets
19th-century French male writers
French-language Occitan writers
Provençal-language Occitan writers
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