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Celebrities of Provence

Théodore Aubanel
Born in 1829 in Avignon, He is one of the founders of the Felibrige. Paul Valery calls him "the only true Provencal poet".
Francesco Pétrarque
Italian poet and humanist, Francesco Petrarqua lived in Provence. He has brought about a rennaissance of written work, the rediscovery of old and forgotten texts and opened the way for the Humanists.
Jean-Henri Fabre
Naturalist born in 1823. "The immense poem of creation has never had a so familiar and enlightened interpretor", said, with justice, the doctor Legros, who did not hesitate to compare him to Reaumur.
Saint Bénézet
In the year of our Lord 1177, Saint Benezet began to build the bridge as it is thus written...
Laure de Noves
The beautiful, fragile and chaste Laura lived, and died, her death inspiring in the heart of the poet Petrarch the "canzones", a permament wound from which flowed like indelible ink the endless source of his talent.
 

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