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The Memoirs of Frédéric Mistral

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New Directions Publishing, 1986 - Biography & Autobiography - 264 pages
The Nobel Prize winning Provencal poet shares memories, anecdotes, stories, folksongs, and poetry from his past and describes rural life in the south of France
  

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Mistral launched, and won the Nobel for, the Provencal renaissance, a quixotic shot at restoring the language of the troubadours to the respectability of print after centuries spent in the mouths of ... Read full review

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Contents

The AlpillesThe son of MaillaneMy parentsMy father
15
PLAYING HOOKY
37
Anthime of GravesonThe breakup of the boarding school
58
AT MONSIEUR DUPUYS SCHOOL
77
THE REPUBLIC OF 1848
101
AT AIXENPROVENCE
118
BACK TO THE FARM
131
FONTSEGUGNE
144
THE JOURNEY TO THE SAINTESMARIESDE
185
The caravan from BeaucaireThe driver Lamouroux
198
MIREIO
214
AROUND MOUNT VENTOUX
226
THE SPREE AT TRINQUETAILLE
241
ANNOTATED INDEX
255
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
261
Copyright

THE PROVENCAL ALMANAC
163

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About the author (1986)

Mistral won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1904.

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