Théodore Aubanel (
Occitan:''Teodòr Aubanèu''; 26 March 1829 – 2 November 1886) was a
Provençal poet. He was born in
Avignon
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in a family of printers.
Aubanel started writing poetry in French but quickly switched to
Provençal, due to the influence of
Joseph Roumanille. 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
*
Provençal literature
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-language poets
19th-century French poets
1829 births
1886 deaths
Writers from Avignon
French male poets
19th-century French male writers
Provençal-language Occitan writers
Félibres
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