[Joseph Marie Jean Baptiste Théodore]. Poet and orator of Provence, born at Avignon, France, on the 26th of March 1829, and was called the “French Petrarch.” He did more, perhaps, than any other to restore the Provençal tongue to its former literary dignity. He was one of the founders of the Société de Félibrige and established many of the schools of Felibres now existing in southern France. In the restored Provençal tongue he has written La Miougrano Entraduberto; La Perlo; La Ventoux; and Lou Castelas; poems, and a drama entitled Lou Pan dou Pecat. He died at Avignon on the 31st of October 1886. See also “Rome” and “Dardanelles.”
