Anthologie anglaise de Littérature occitane.

1. 15 Introduction
1. Early texts
Anonymous
23 Tomida femina/A swollen woman
Anonymous
24 Boeci/Boethius
Anonymous
29 Sponsus/The Bridegroom
Anonymous
32 ‘Mei amic e mei fiel’/‘My friends and faithful company’
Anonymous
35 Cançon de Santa Fe/Song of Saint Fides
Guilhem IX, Duke of Aquitaine, VII Count of Poitiers
40 ‘En Alvernhe part Lemozi’/‘In Auvergne beyond the Limousin’
2. Troubadours – Canso
Jaufré Rudel
46 ‘Lanqand li jorn son lonc en mai’/‘When that the days grow long in May’
Bernart de Ventadorn
49 ‘Can vei la lauzeta mover’/‘When I see the lark move her wings’
Raimbaut d’Aurenga
53 ‘Er resplan la flors enversa’/‘Now blossoms the anti-flower’
Giraut de Bornelh
56 ‘Non puesc sofrir c’a la dolor’/‘No matter what pain I suffer’
Arnaut Daniel
61 ‘Lo ferm voler q’el cor m’intra’/‘Into my heart such desire enters’
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2. Peire Vidal
63 ‘Ab l’alen tir vas me l’aire’/‘Deeply inhaling, I drink in the air’
Folquet de Marselha
65 ‘Tant m’abellis l’amoros pessamens’/‘So charmed am I by the thought of
love’
Raimon de Miraval
69 ‘Bel m’es qu’ieu chant e coindei’/‘It pleases me to sing and court’
3. Troubadours – Other lyric and poetic genres
Cercamon
74 ‘Pus nostre temps comens’a brunezir’/‘Since our season begins to grow
dark’
Bertran de Born
77 ‘Be.m platz lo gais temps de pascor’/‘Oh how I love gay Eastertime’
Marcabru
81 ‘L’autrier jost una sebissa’/‘The other day along a hedgerow’
‘Bernart de Ventadorn’ – ‘Peirol’ (Anonymous?)
86 ‘Peirol, cum avetz tant est’/‘Peirol, why have you gone so long’
Gaucelm Faidit
89 ‘Perdigons, vostre sen digaz’/‘Perdigon, tell me your opinion’
Lo Monge de Montaudon
94 ‘Fort m’enoia, s’o auzes dire’/‘Some things annoy me, if I dare say’
Giraut de Bornelh
98 ‘Reis glorios, verais lums e clartatz’/‘Glorious King of true light and clarity’
Albertet de Sestaro
101 ‘Bel m’es oimais’/‘It’s good for me now’
Raimbaut de Vaqueiras
105 ‘Kalenda maia’/‘Now Mayday has come’
Peire Vidal
110 ‘Drogoman Senher, s’ieu agues bon destrier’/‘My Lord Interpreter, if I had
a good charger’
Sordèl (Sordello)
113 ‘Planher vuelh en Blacatz en aquest leugier so’/‘I shall grieve for Sir Blacatz
to this sprightly tune’
Bertran d’Alamanon
116 ‘Ja de chantar nulh temps no serai mutz’/‘Never shall I refrain from
singing’
Peire Cardenal
119 ‘Una ciutatz fo, no sai cals’/‘Once was a city, I can’t say its name’
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4. Medieval Women’s Voices: the Trobairitz
Tibors de Sarenom
124 ‘Bels dous amics, ben vos puosc en ver dir’/‘Fair, sweet friend, I can truly
tell you’
La Comtessa de Dia
125 ‘A chantar m’er de so q’ieu no volria’/‘I must sing of what I’d rather not’
Azalais de Porcairagues
127 ‘Ar em al freg temps vengut’/‘Now we are come to the cold time’
Na Castelloza
130 ‘Mout avetz faich lonc estatge’/‘It has been far too long’
Bietris de Roman
133 ‘Na Maria, pretz e fina valors’/‘Lady Maria, the virtue and pure worth’
Maria de Ventadorn and Gui d’Ussel
135 ‘Gui d’Ussel be.m pesai de vos’/‘Gui d’Ussel, I’m troubled about you’
La Comtessa de Proensa (Garsenda de Forcalquier) and Gui de
Cavaillon
138 ‘Vos qe.m semblatz dels corals amadors’/‘You who seem to me a true-
hearted lover’
5. Narrative and Didactic Verse
Anonymous
141 Canso d’Antioca
Anonymous
144 Daurèl et Betó/Daurel and Beton
Anonymous
150 Roman de Jaufre/Jaufre
Raimon Vidal de Besalú
155 Castia-gilos/The Chastising of the Jealous Man
Guilhem de Tudela
161 Canso de la Crosada/Song of the Cathar Wars
Anonymous
164 Canso de la Crosada/Song of the Cathar Wars
Anonymous
171 Flamenca/Romance of Flamenca
Anonymous
177 Ronsasvals
Garin lo Brun
181 Ensenhament de la donsela/Instruction to the Young Lady
Daude de Pradas
185 Dels auzels cassadors/On Hunting Birds
Matfre Ermengaud
189 Breviari d’amor

4. 6. Medieval Occitan Prose Texts
Old Occitan Charters
196 Jurament/Oath of Fidelity
Raimon Vidal de Besalú
198 Razos de trobar
Anonymous
202 Preguièra Catara/Cathar Prayer
203 Ritual Catar/Cathar Ritual
205 La Costuma d’Agen/The Customary Laws of Agen
Uc Faidit
209 Donatz Proensals
Anonymous
212 Gesta Karoli Magni ad Carcassonam et Narbonam/Deeds of Charlemagne
at Carcassonne and Narbonne
Vidas and Razos
216 Jaufré Rudel
216 Guilhem de Cabestaing
217 Bertran de Born
Philippa de Porcellet (attributed)
219 La Vida de Santa Doucelina/The Life of Saint Douceline
7. Later Middle Ages
Dante Alighieri
224 De vulgari eloquentia
224 La Commedia, ‘Purgatorio’/The Divine Comedy, ‘Purgatory’
Raimon de Cornet
226 ‘Quar mot ome fan vers’/‘Since so many compose vers’
Guilhem Molinier
230 Leys d’Amors/Laws of Poetry
Albucasis (Abu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas Al-Zahrawi)
232 [A]yssi comensan las paraulas de Albucasim/Here begin the words of
Albucasis
Anonymous
236 Jeu de sainte Agnès/The Play of Saint Agnes
Anonymous
238 Barlaam et Josaphat/Barlaam and Josaphat
Anonymous
241 La Nòbla Leiçon/The Noble Lesson
Vincent Ferrer
245 Sermon en lenga vulgara prononciat a Tolosa/Sermon in the vulgar tongue
delivered in Toulouse
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5. Anonymous
248 Thalamus parvus: le petit Thalamus de Montpellier/The Chronicles of
Montpellier
Anonymous
250 Receptas medicalas/Medical Remedies
Arnaut Esquerrièr
253 Cronicas romanas dels Comtes de Fois/Romance Chronicles of the
Counts of Foix
Raimon de Perelhos
255 Voyage au Purgatoire de St. Patrice/Voyage to St. Patrick’s Purgatory
François Rabelais
257 Pantagruel
8. The Baroque Renaissance in Gascony and Western
Languedoc
Anonymous
261 La Requeste faicte par les dames de la ville de Tolose/The Request made by
the Ladies of Toulouse
Pey de Garros
267 Psaumes/Psalms
Poesias gasconas/Gascon Poems
270 Eglòga III/Eclogue III
273 Epis. au Médix/Third epistle to A. B.
Guillaume de Salluste du Bartas
276 Las tres nimfas/The Three Nymphs
Augièr Galhard
Lou Banquet/The Banquet
279 Lou testament d’un porc/The Last Testament of a Pig
Claude Odde de Triors
284 Les Joyeuses recherches de la langue tolosaine/Merry Investigation into
the Language of Toulouse
Pèire Godolin
286 A Tots, damb un trimfle d’avertissament/To All, With a Triumph of a
Foreword
287 Stanças a l’urosa memòria d’Enric le Grand, invincible Rei de França e de
Navarra/Stanzas to the Happy Memory of Henry the Great, Invincible
King of France and Navarre
293 Prològue/Prologue
296 Cant roial/Chant royal
Bertrand Larade
Meslanges de dibersas poesies/Various Poems
300 A Madamaisela A.D.M.B./To Mademoiselle A.D.M.B.
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Guilhèm Ader
301 Lo Gentilòme gascon/The Gascon Gentleman
Jean-Guiraud Dastros
Lou Trimfe de la lenguo gascouo/The Triumph of the Gascon Tongue
305 L’Autouno gascouo/The Gascon Autumn
Gérard Bédout
Lou Partèrre gascon/The Gascon Parterre
310 L’Adiu deu Bountemps e l’Amourous mau pagat/Bon Temps’s Farewell
and the Lowly-Paid Lover
312 Lo monde renversat/The World Turned Upside Down
François de Cortète
314 Ramounet
9. The Baroque Renaissance in Provence and Eastern
Languedoc
Jean de Nostredame
320 Vies des plus celebres et anciens poetes provensaux
321 So que s’es pogut reculhir dels comtes de Prouvensa et de Forcalquier/
That which could be gleaned of the Counts of Provence and Forcalquier
Bellaud de la Bellaudière
Òbras et rimas/Works and Rhymes
324 Sonnet 37
325 Lo Dòn-dòn infernau/The Infernal Tolling
Los Passatems/Pastimes
328 Sonnet 137
Pierre Paul
L’Autounado/Autumn Harvest
329 Per la bello Claro [de Chabaud]/For Lovely Claire [de Chabaud]
330 Ley gracis que dison lous fermiere de la ville de Marceillo.../Thanks
Expressed by the Salt Tax Farmers of Marseille...
Robert Ruffi
From Bellaud’s Òbras
334 Chanson au retour de la contagion/Chanson on the Return of the
Contagion
337 Ode à Pierre Paul/Ode to Pierre Paul
Michel Tronc
341 Militaires chez l’habitant/The Lodging Soldiers
Claude Brueys
Jardin deys musos provensalos/Garden of Provençal Muses
344 Ordonanços de Caramantran a quatre personnagis/Rulings of Carnival
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Isaac Despuech, dit ‘Le Sage’
348 L’embarcament, las conquèstas e l’urós retorn de Caramantrant/The
Departure, Conquests and Heroic Return of Carnival
François Bonnet
353 Histoire de la rejouissance des chambrières de Beziers/Tale of the
Merrymaking of the Chambermaids of Béziers
Madame de Scudéry
356 Letter to Mlle Paulet, 13 December, 1644
Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux
Les Historiettes
357 Mademoiselle Diodée
10. Centralised Monarchy to the French Revolution
Jean Racine
361 Letter to Jean de la Fontaine
John Locke
362 Correspondence
Nicolas Saboly
362 ‘Venès lèu vèire la piéucello’/‘Come now, come, to see the Maiden’
Joseph Pasturel
365 L’Home conten/The Happy Man
Joan de Cabanas
367 Lou Braiÿé/The Truss
Cyprien Despourrins
372 ‘De cap à tu soy Mariou’/‘I’m thine for ever, Marion!’
Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville
375 Daphnis et Alcimadure/Daphnis and Alcimadure
Anonymous
Two Gascon Folk Songs
381 Lou moussu e la paisante/The Squire and the Peasant Girl
383 Petito Margarido/Little Margaret
Augustin Boissier de Sauvages
384 Dictionnaire languedocien-français
Jean-Baptiste Fabre
386 L’Istòria de Joan l’an pres/Jean-l’ont-pris
Tobias Smollett
391 Travels through France and Italy
Charles Burney
394 A General History of Music
Jean-Baptiste Germain
396 Apoulougio de la Bourrido dei Dioux en formo de playdeja/An Apology
for the ‘Bourride of the Gods’ in the Form of an Appeal

8. Jean-Claude Peyrot
Las Quatre sasous/The Four Seasons
398 Lou printems/Spring
Antoine Hyacinthe Sermet
401 Discours prounounçat davant la Légioun dé Saint-Ginest/Discourse
Delivered Before the Multitude of Saint-Ginest
Pierre Bernadau
403 Lous Dreyts de l’Ome/The Rights of Man
Abbé Henri Grégoire
405 Report on the Necessity and Means for Annihilating Patois and
Universalising the Use of French
11. Troubadours and Occitanie
Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian
407 Estelle/Stella: A Pastoral Romance
Antoine Fabre d’Olivet
Le Troubadour, poésies occitaniques du XIIIe siècle
409 Introduction
410 Lou Poudestad de Diû, sirventes rimat/The Power of God, Sirventes
419 La Langue d’Oc rétablie
Jean Charles Léonard Simonde de Sismondi
423 De la littérature du Midi de l’Europe (translated Thomas Roscoe)
François Juste Marie Raynouard
425 Choix des poésies originales des troubadours
Henri de Pascal de Rochegude
426 Le Parnasse occitanien
Felicia Hemans
428 Troubadour Song
Alfred Moquin-Tandon
429 Carya Magalonensis
Jean-Bernard Mary-Lafon
432 Histoire politique, religieuse et littéraire du Midi de la France
Gustave de La Fare-Alais
Las Castagnados/The Chestnut Evenings
435 La Fèsto das morts/Day of the Dead
12. New Troubaires and Marginal Voices
Aubin-Louis Millin
440 Voyage dans les départemens du Midi de la France
Antoine ‘Meste’ Verdié
442 Catastrophe affruse arribade a Meste Bernat ou la separatioun dam
Mariote/The Awful Catastrophe Befalling Master Bernart, or His
Separation from Mariote
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9. Joseph Marius Diouloufet
446 Leis Magnans/The Silkworms
Joseph-Rosalinde Rancher
451 La Nemaïda/The Nemaïd
Jacques Boé (Jasmin)
454 L’Abuglo de Castèl-Cuillé/The Blind Girl of Castèl-Cuillé
Bentley’s Miscellany
457 M. Jasmin
Xavièr Navarròt
459 Dialogue entre Mossur Matèu, l’Elector i Jan de Minja-quan-n’as, lo
bohèmi/Dialogue between Monsieur Mathieu, Elector and Jean Eat-
When-You-Have-Some, A Bohemian
Victor Gelu
Chansons provençales et françaises
464 Fénian e Grouman/Idler and Glutton
469 Avertissement
470 Nouvé Granè
Louisa Stuart Costello
472 Béarn and the Pyrenees
Flora Tristan
474 The Tour of France 1843-1844
13. Frédéric Mistral and the Avignon Félibrige
Frédéric Mistral
Mirèio/Mireille
478 Cant IV/Canto IV
481 Cant X/Canto X
Armana prouvençau
487 I troubaire catalan/To the Catalan Poets’
Calendau
490 Cant I/Canto I
492 Mistral’s Note to Above Text
Reneissènço Felibrenco/Felibrean Reniassance
494 Discours pèr l’uberturo di Jo Flouran de Mount-Pelié, Santo
Estello/Mistral’s speech for the opening of the Floral Games of
Montpellier, Saint Estelle
Lou Pouèmo dóu Rose/Poem of the Rhone
500 Cant VI/Canto VI (LI)
503 Cant X/Canto X (LXXXVI)
Joseph Roumanille
505 Li dansaire de Jounquiero/The Dancers of Jonquières
Théodore Aubanel
La Mióugrano entre-duberto/The Split Pomegranate
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507 Libre d’amour, VI/Book of Love, VI
509 Lou 9 Termidor/Ninth Thermidor
512 Lou Pan dóu pecat/The Bread of Sin
Li Fiho d’Avignoun/The Girls of Avignon
517 La Venus d’Arle/Venus of Arles
519 Luno pleno/Full Moon
Eugène Garcin
522 Les français du nord et du midi
William Charles Bonaparte-Wyse
Li Parpaioun blu/The Blue Butterflies
524 La castelano/The Chatelaine
14. Montpellier and the Félibrige Rouge
Octavien Bringuier
528 A Perpau de Petrarca/On the Subject of Petrarch
Achille Mir
La Cansou de la lauseto/The Song of the Lark
531 A Clemenço Isauro/To Clemence Isaure
Napoléon Peyrat
533 L’Histoire des Albigeois
534 Les Pyrénées
535 A Dona Graciorella Milgrana/To Lady Graciorella Milgrana
Louis-Xavier de Ricard
538 Le Fédéralisme
Auguste Fourès
540 L’Albeto/Dawn Rising
541 A-n-uno espaso del secle tretcieme/To A Thirteenth-Century Sword
Lydie de Ricard
545 A la mar latina/To the Latin Sea
Félix Gras
546 Li Roges dau Miegjorn/The Reds of the Midi
15. Later Félibrige, Modernism and the Origins of
Occitanism
Charles Maurras, Frédéric Amouretti, Auguste Marin
554 La Déclaration des félibres fédéralistes/The Declaration of the Federalist
Félibres
Marius André
557 La Glòri d’Esclarmoundo/Esclarmonde’s Glory
559 Long de L’Adour/Along the Adour
Jules Boissière
Li Gabian/The Seagulls
560 Sus lou flume/The River

11. Valèri Bernard
La Pauriho/The Poor
562 L’Espouvantau/The Scarecrow
564 Long la mar latino/Along the Latin Sea
568 La Legenda d’Esclarmonda/The Legend of Esclarmonde
Ezra Pound
573 Psychology and Troubadours
Joseph d’Arbaud
Lou Lausié d’Arle/The Laurel of Arles
575 Lou Lausié/The Laurel
Li Rampau d’Aram/The Bronze Branches
576 La Vesioun de l’Uba/Vision of the North
579 La Bestiò dóu Vacarés/The Beast of the Vacarès
Ford Madox Ford
584 Provence
Joseph Roux
La Chansou Lemouzina/The Limousin Song
587 Sent-Angial/Saint-Angel
Antonin Perbòsc
Lo Gòt Occitan/The Occitan Goblet
591 La Mòrt de la Vinha/The Death of the Vine
Lo Libre dels Auzèls/The Book of Birds
595 Pastora/Shepherdess
Antonin Perbòsc and Prosper Estieu
598 Mont-Segur
Anonymous
601 La Marselhesa dels vinhairons/The Wine-Growers’ Marseillaise
Folco de Baroncelli-Javon
602 Auzor!/Arise!
’ Jean Jaurès
605 Peasant Culture
606 Popular Education and “Patois”
Michel Camélat
Belina/Beline
607 Cant II: Las apariadas/Canto II: The Betrothal
Paul-Louis Grenier
Imatges/Images
611 Lo Murmur/The Murmur
Jòrgi Reboul
612 Terraire nòu/New Land
Philippe Pétain
614 Declaration of Marshal Pétain on the 110th Anniversary of the Birth of
Frédéric Mistral
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12. Louis Alibert
615 Origin and Destiny of the Langue d’Oc
16. Twentieth-Century Occitan Literature
Joë Bousquet
Cahiers du Sud
621 The Genius of Òc and The Mediterranean Man
Simone Weil (Emile Novis)
622 The Agony of a Civilisation as seen through an Epic Poem
Louisa Paulin
Sorgas/Sources
623 ‘Bona pluèja’/‘Gentle Autumn Rain’
Renat Nelli
624 Cançon de la Solitud/Song of Solitude
626 L’Eretge/The Heretic
627 L’Érotique des troubadours
Sully-André Peyre
629 Gloria rosae
Carles Camprós
Poëmas de la Resisténcia/Poems of the Resistance
633 Lo Planh de l’Uganaud Vielh/The Old Huguenot’s Lament
Max Roqueta
Cahiers du Sud
635 Poèma/Poem
La Pietat dau matin/Morning Piety
637 ‘Los aucèls de l’auba/‘The Dawn Birds’
Lo Maucòr de l’unicòrn/The Torment of the Unicorn
638 L’ariana/Ariadne
Vert Paradís/Green Paradise
639 Secret de l’èrba/The Secret of the Grass
Robert Lafont
644 Vida de Joan Larsinhac/Life of Joan Larsinhac
Dire/Speaking
648 Cantata de la miseria dins Arle/Cantata of the Misery in Arles
650 Lettre ouverte aux Français, d’un Occitan/Open Letter to the French, from
an Occitan
651 La Gacha a la Cisterna/The Watcher at the Cistern
Joan Bodon
654 La Grava sul camin/The Gravel on the Track
658 La Talvera
Max Allier
660 ‘Ai viscut los jorns de vergonha’/‘I’ve lived through days of shame’
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13. Marcela Delpastre
664 La mar/The Sea
665 La memòria/Memory
Denis Saurat
Encaminament catar/Cathar Path
668 Blaco/Blake
Enric Espieut (Henri Espieux)
672 Aliscamps
Bernat (Bernard) Manciet
675 Accidents/Accidents
676 The Nérac Declaration
677 Lo Gojat de Noveme/The November Lad
683 L’Enterrament a Sabres/Burial at Sabres
Robert Allan
685 Lo Poèma deis amics/Poem of The Lovers
Pèire Bec
691 Lo Hiu tibat/The Taut Wire
697 ‘Lo còr mes dur que las pèiras d’artiga’/‘With heart harder than stones of
the assart’
Leòn Cordas
699 La Batalha des teules/The Battle of the Tiles
Sèrgi Bec
703 Balada pèr Lili Fòng/Ballad for Lily Fong
Ives Roqueta
Oda a San Afrodisi/Ode to Saint Afrodisius
710 Florida
Lo castèl dels cans/The Castle of Dogs
714 Pensant a Pons, Josèp Sebastià/Thinking of Josèp Sebastià Pons
Miquèu (Michel) Miniussi
715 Per un art poëtic occitan/Towards an Occitan Poetic Art
17. Contemporary Writing
Aubin Bonnet
722 Linhenc/Lignin
Joan-Ives Casanova
727 Cap de Creus
Joan-Pau Creissac
728 Tròces/Fragments
Miquèl Decor
730 Sus un ortet de Calhòl/In a Garden in Calhòl
Maëlle Dupon
731 ‘Totes avián un gost de carn’/‘Everyone had a taste of flesh’
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14. Joan Claudi Forêt
733 Lo pòble correire de la lòna/The Runners of the Lagoon
Felip Gardy
734 Mitologicas/Mythologicals
Xavi Guitierrez Riu
735 Eth mercat de Vic/Market Day in Vic
Sèrgi Javaloyès
739 L’Òra de partir/Time of Departure
Jean Larzac
Ai tres òmes a taula, a miègjorn
742 La Torre de Babel/The Tower of Babel
Aurélia Lassaque
Solstice and Other Poems
743 Pantais/Fantasy
744 Lo sòmi d’Orfèu/The Dream of Orpheus
Bernat Lesfargas
Et ego
745 Aquí/Here
Joan Dau Melhau
746 Au rier-lutz dau silenci/In the Shadow of Silence
Rotland Pecot
748 Van Gogh a Sant-Pau de-Mausòla/Van Gogh at Saint-Paul-de-Mausole
Joan-Maria Petit
751 La Prima de Dieu/God’s Spring
752 De femna e d’òme/Of woman and man
Jaumes Privat
752 De lo luòc del nonluòc/The Place of No Place
Estève Salendres
754 ‘Lo ritme sorn de ton pas’/‘Your Soft, Muffled Sway’
Claudio Salvagno
755 Telefonades da Trípoli/Phone Calls from Tripoli
Jànluc Sauvaigo
757 La Nau dei Fòls/Ship of Fools
Alem Surre-Garcia
760 ‘Veniái tot escàs de logar una estança del meu còs’/‘I’d just then rented out
one floor of my block’
Joan-Pèire Tardiu
761 Piercings
Adelina Yzac
761 Aigas/Waters
764 Bibliography
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