Joseph d'Arbaud
{{short description|French poet}}
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| birth_date = 4 October 1874
| birth_place = Meyrargues, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
| death_date = {{death-date and age|2 March 1950|4 October 1874}}
| death_place = Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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| parents =Philippe d'Arbaud
Marie-Louise Valère-Martin
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Joseph d'Arbaud (4 October 1874 – 2 March 1950) was a French poet and writer from Provence.{{cite journal |last1=Roche |first1=Alphonse V. |title=Modern Provencal Literature and Joseph d'Arbaud |journal=Books Abroad |date=March 15, 1942 |volume=16 |issue=2 |pages=131–134 |doi=10.2307/40082563 |jstor=40082563 }} He was a leading figure in the Provençal Revival, a literary movement of the nineteenth century.{{cite journal |last1=Aston |first1=S. C. |title=Provençal Studies |journal=The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies |date=1958 |volume=20 |pages=172–183 |doi=10.1163/22224297-90001188 |jstor=25831415 }}
Biography
=Early life=
Joseph d'Arbaud was born in an aristocratic family in Meyrargues on 4 October 1874.[http://www.sceaux.fr/bibliotheque/?menuid=24&asc=0.20.24 :: Bibliothèque municipale de Sceaux ::] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927042941/http://www.sceaux.fr/bibliotheque/?menuid=24&asc=0.20.24 |date=2007-09-27 }} His father was Philippe d'Arbaud and his mother, Marie-Louise Valère-Martin. He was educated by Jesuits in Avignon, then studied the Law in Aix-en-Provence.
=Career=
After spending a few years with young writers from Aix-en-Provence, he left for Camargue and became a bull-herder. In 1918, he became a chief figure in Félibrige, a literary and cultural association founded by Frédéric Mistral (1830–1914) and other Provençal writers to defend and promote Langue d'oc languages and literatures. Le Monde referred to d'Arbaud as Mistral's fils spirituel (spiritual son).{{cite news |last1=Henriot |first1=Emile |title=Joseph d'Arbaud, fils de Mistral |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1951/03/21/joseph-d-arbaud-fils-de-mistral_2063751_1819218.html |accessdate=3 June 2020 |work=Le Monde |issue=March 21, 1951 |publisher=Le Monde |date=March 21, 1951}}
D'Arbaud wrote in Provençal and translated his own works into French. Mistral penned a foreword to d'Arbaud's 1913 collection of poems Le Laurier d'Arles. Together with Emile Sicard, d'Arbaud also edited a local literary magazine titled Le Feu.{{cite journal |last1=Sussex |first1=R. T. |title=Joseph d'Arbaud, Poet of the Camarge |journal=Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association |date=1974 |volume=42 |issue=1 |pages=175–185 |doi=10.1179/aulla.1974.002 }}
=Death=
Bibliography
- La bête du Vaccarès [http://www.aixenprovencetourism.com/uk/aix-aixois-autres.htm Aix en Provence – Tourist Office – Provence – France] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070807023457/http://www.aixenprovencetourism.com/uk/aix-aixois-autres.htm |date=2007-08-07 }}
- The Beast, and Other Tales, Northwestern University Press, 2020.{{cite book |last1=d'Arbaud |first1=Jóusè |title=The Beast, and Other Tales |date=September 15, 2020 |publisher=Northwestern University Press |location=Evanston, Illinois |isbn=978-0-8101-4312-8 |edition=First |url=https://nupress.northwestern.edu/content/beast-and-other-tales |accessdate=3 June 2020}}
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Category:People from Bouches-du-Rhône
Category:Writers from Aix-en-Provence
Category:Aix-Marseille University alumni
Category:20th-century French poets
Category:20th-century French male writers
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