Jean Brunet
Jean Brunet (27 December 1822 – 23 October 1894) was a French Provençal poet.
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Jean Brunet
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- Name
- Jean Brunet
- Born
- 27 December 1822
- Birthplace
- Avignon, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
- Died
- 24 October 1894
- Occupation
- Poet
- Spouse
- Cécile Brunet
- Nationality
- France
- Movements
- Félibrige
- Languages
- French · Occitan
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Jean Brunet (27 December 1822 – 23 October 1894) was a French Provençal poet.
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Jean Brunet (1822–1894) was a folklorist, painter and varnisher and poet, among other activities, of French nationality. The folklorist was born and died in Avignon.
Jean Brunet held the positions of 'majoral' of the Félibrige and captain. The folklorist was associated with Félibrige. Languages used include French and Occitan.
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• Name — Jean Brunet • Born — 27 December 1822 • Birthplace — Avignon, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France • Died — 24 October 1894 • Place of death — Avignon, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France • Occupation — Poet • Spouse — Cécile Brunet
Early life
Early life
Brunet was born on 27 December 1822 in Avignon, in Provence, France.
Career
Career
On 21 May 1854, he co-founded the Félibrige movement with Joseph Roumanille, Frédéric Mistral, Théodore Aubanel, Alphonse Tavan, Paul Giéra and Anselme Mathieu. He published collections of poems and sayings in Provençal. His first poems were published in the French literary journal entitled Musée des familles in 1867.
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Personal life
He was married to Cécile Brunet. Stéphane Mallarmé, who was friends with the Brunets, wrote a poem entitled Sainte about her.
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He died on 23 October 1894 in Avignon.
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- 1.Avignon Visitor Center: Les personnages célèbres d'Avignon.
- 2.Charles Pierre Julian, Anthologie du Félibrige provençal (1850 à nos jours) poésie : Les fondateurs du Félibrige et les premiers Félibres, Paris: Librairie Delagrave, 1920, pp. 208-211 https://books.google.com/books?id=0pkzAQAAMAAJ&q=%22jean+brunet%22+poete
- 3.Joep Leerssen, Ann Rigney, Commemorating Writers in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Nation-Building and Centenary Fever, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, chapter 7 https://books.google.com/books?id=IElvBAAAQBAJ&dq=Alphonse+Tavan+provencal&pg=PT112
- 4.Musée des familles: Lectures du soir, 1867, Volume 34, p. 188
- 5.Emilie Noulet, Dix poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé, Geneva, Switzerland: Librairie Droz, 1948, pp. 36-38 https://books.google.com/books?id=w6NMRm-yOYcC&dq=%22jean+brunet%22+poete&pg=PA37
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