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FrEdEric Mistral[frAdArEk´ mEstrAl´] Pronunciation Key, 1830–1914, French ProvenCal poet. With ThEodore Aubanel he was one of the seven founders (1854) of the FElibrige, an organization to promote ProvenCal as a literary language (see ProvenCal literature). He was the leader of the movement and was recognized as its greatest poet. Besides many short poems he wrote four verse romances, notably MirEio (1859, tr. 1867). He published a ProvenCal dictionary (1878–86) and wrote memoirs (tr. 1907). His verse is characterized rather by ease and beauty of language than by power of thought. He shared with Echegaray the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature.
See his memoirs, tr. by G. Wickes (1986); studies by C. A. Downer (1901), R. Aldington (1960), and T. Edwards (1965).
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