# Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence Author: Downer, Charles Alfred, 1866-1930 Genre: Category: Poetry Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17293 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric+Mistral+Poet+and+Leader+in+Provence+Downer&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary The present century has witnessed a remarkable literary phenomenon in the south of France, a remarkable rebirth of local patriotism. A language has been born again, so to speak, and once more, after a sleep of many hundred years, the sunny land that was the cradle of modern literature, offers us a new efflorescence of poetry, embodied in the musical tongue that never has ceased to be spoken on the soil where the Troubadours sang of love. Those who began this movement knew not whither they were tending. From small beginnings, out of a kindly desire to give the humbler folk a simple, homely literature in the language of their firesides, there grew a higher ambition. The Provençal language p... ## Chapters - [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederic-mistral-poet-and-leader-in-provence-17293/chapters/6/index.md) - [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederic-mistral-poet-and-leader-in-provence-17293/chapters/8/index.md) - [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederic-mistral-poet-and-leader-in-provence-17293/chapters/7/index.md) - [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederic-mistral-poet-and-leader-in-provence-17293/chapters/3/index.md) - [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederic-mistral-poet-and-leader-in-provence-17293/chapters/1/index.md) - [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederic-mistral-poet-and-leader-in-provence-17293/chapters/2/index.md) - [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederic-mistral-poet-and-leader-in-provence-17293/chapters/4/index.md) - [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederic-mistral-poet-and-leader-in-provence-17293/chapters/5/index.md) - [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/frederic-mistral-poet-and-leader-in-provence-17293/chapters/9/index.md)