The Memoirs of Fr?d?ric Mistral [Paperback]

Fr?d?ric Mistral (1830-1914) was without a doubt the greatest modern Proven?al poet and the foremost champion of his native Provence, the guiding spirit of a group of latter-day troubadours who revived and refined the language of Southern France as a literary medium. For this achievement and for his own poetry, Mistral was awarded the Nobel prize in 1904characteristically, he gave the prize money to a folklore museum he had founded in Arles. Two years later, at the age of seventy-six, Mistral published his charming book of? In his old age Fr?d?ric Mistral looked like Buffalo Bill and was almost as famous&He was without a doubt the greatest modern Proven?al poet and the greatest champion of his native Provence.?