Occitan literature

thumb|300px|Meeting of the Félibrige in 1854: Frédéric Mistral, [[Joseph Roumanille, Théodore Aubanel, Jean Brunet, Paul Giéra, Anselme Mathieu, Alphonse Tavan]] The Félibrige (; in classical Occitan, in Mistralian spelling, ) is a literary and cultural association founded in 1854 by Frédéric Mistral and other Provençal writers to defend and promote the Occitan language (also called the ) and literature. It is presided over by a (classical norm: ). The name possibly derives from an apocryphal Provençal story of Christ disputing in the temple with the seven doctors [sét félibre] of law.

thumb|Mirèio Mirèio (in Mistralian norm, ; Mirèlha in classical norm, ) is a poem in Occitan (Provençal) by French writer Frédéric Mistral, written in 1859 after eight years of effort. Mirèio, a long poem consisting of twelve songs, tells of the thwarted love of Vincent and Mireille, two young Provençal people of different social backgrounds. The name Mireille/Mirèio was coined by Mistral as a doublet of the word . Mirèio was the first great success of Frédéric Mistral.

literary work by Nostradamus

from southern France, mostly in Occitan

historic poetry contests

opera by Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville

Jaufre (also called Jaufré or Jaufri) is the only surviving Arthurian romance written in Occitan. A verse romance approximately 11,000 lines long, its main character is equivalent to Sir Griflet son of Do, a Knight of the Round Table known from other literature and deriving ultimately from the minor Welsh deity Gilfaethwy, son of the ancestral goddess Dôn ( compare the name of Jaufre's mother, Dovon ) and a character in Math fab Mathonwy, fourth of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi. Translations of Jaufre were popular on the Iberian Peninsula; a version of the tale (from a Spanish redaction) e