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toire des Gorges du Verdon in Quinson and the new five-
storey building for Monaco Yacht Club (scheduled to open in
2013).
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Alexandre Dumas
» My Father's Glory , Marcel
Pagnol
» A Year in Provence , Peter
Mayle
» The Perfume , Patrick Süs-
kind
» Tender is the Night , F Scott
Fitzgerald
Literature
Courtly Love to Prophecies
Lyric poems of courtly love, written by troubadours solely in the Occitan language, dom-
inated medieval Provençal literature.
Provençal life featured in the works of Itali-
an poet Petrarch (1304-74), exiled in 1327 to
Avignon, where he met Laura, to whom he
dedicated his life's works. Petrarch lived in
Fontaine-de-Vaucluse from 1337 to 1353,
where he wrote poems and letters about local
shepherds, fishermen he met on the banks of
the Sorgue, and his pioneering ascent up Mont
Frédéric Mistral remains the only minority-lan-
guage writer so far to have been awarded the Nobel
Prize for literature (1904) for his work as a
Provençal philologist and in recognition of his po-
etic talent.
Ventoux.
In 1555 the philosopher and visionary writer from St-Rémy de Provence, Nostradamus
(1503-66), published (in Latin) his prophetic Centuries in Salon de Provence, where he
lived until his death (from gout, as he had predicted).
Mistral to Mayle
The 19th century witnessed a revival in Provençal literature, thanks to poet Frédéric Mis-
tral (1830-1914). Mistral set up the literary movement Le Félibrige with six other young
Provençal poets in a bid to revive the Provençal dialect and codify its orthography. The
result was Provençal dictionary Lou Trésor dou Félibrige .
 
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