A Hand Book to the Modern Provençal Language: Spoken in the South of France, Piedmont, Etc (Classic Reprint)

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IN introducing to the British public our Handbook to 15726 Modern Provencal, we feel that but little apology is requisite. A language, to the work of one of whose Troubadours, Raimbaud de Vachieras, named Les Pleurs o'u Sie'cle, it has been by some supposed that Milton was indebted for the idea of his sublime poems, and which has influenced so extensively both French and Italian literature, cannot be uninteresting to the student. The present century may be well denominated the Renaissance of the Provencal 5 were no other poem than the charming Idyll Fran conette, that chef-d'oeuvre of M. Jasmin, extant in this tongue, this would be sufficient to stamp it with renown. But when.

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