Literary Birthday – 8 September – Frédéric Mistral

Frédéric Mistral was born on 8 September 1830 and died on 25 March 1914.

Frédéric Mistral Quotes

1. Trees with deep roots grow tall.
2. The five fingers of the hand are not all equal.
3. When the Good Lord comes to doubt about the world, he remembers that he created Provence.
4. Each year, the nightingale dresses with new feathers, but it keeps the same song.
5. He who has seen Paris and not Cassis has seen nothing.

Frédéric Mistral was a French writer and lexicographer. He was a French poet who spearheaded the 19th-century revival of the Occitan (Provençal) language and literature. In 1904, he shared the Nobel Prize in Literature with José Echegaray y Eizaguirre for his literary and philological contributions. He also devoted 20 years to creating a comprehensive Provençal dictionary, Lou Tresor d’ou Félibrige. Mistral’s volume of memoirs, Memoirs of Mistral, is his best-known work, along with the poem, Mirèio, a Provençal Poem.

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by Amanda Patterson
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