biography
pronunciation:
[meestral]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1830–1914)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Maillane, SE France. He became a founder of the Provençal renaissance movement (the Félibrige school), and is best known for his long narrative poems, such as Miréio (1859) and Calendau (1861), and for his Provençal French dictionary (1878–86). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1904. |
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