Provencal Collection

La Farandole
This sketch shows a number of young women engaging in a Farandole, a ProvenCal dance in which members will join hands, prancing inwards and outwards, forming a chain, following a serpentine course

Florence Gould in costume for the Perian Gala, Juan les Pins
Florence Gould, wife of Frank Jay Gould, the famous millionaire and controlling genius behind the Palais de la Mediterranee at Nice

Jean-Marie Bayol
JEAN-MARIE BAYOL French explorer in Africa, notably in the Upper Niger : subsequently a colonial administrator and poet (in Provencal)

Mistral Photo
FREDERIC MISTRAL French provencal poet, here with relatives and dogs in 1906 when he has become a national monument. Date: 1830-1914

Mistral Recites
The French Provencal poet MISTRAL recites his own verses in the Roman ruins at Saint- Remy. Date: 1868

MISTRAL
FREDERIC MISTRAL French Provencal writer Date: 1830-1914

Mistral and Missus
French Provencal writer FREDERIC MISTRAL with his wife and their dog in their garden. Date: 1830-1914

Frederic Mistral (18301914) - French writer and lexicographer of the Occitan language. Mistral won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1904 and was a founding member of Felibrige

Paul Auguste Arene / Gill
Paul Auguste Arene. Provencal poet and French writer

Theodore Aubanel / Gill
Theodore Aubanel. Provencal poet, influenced by Joseph Roumanille

Amreica. Photographs from America. Sicard, on the Yuba
The town of Sicard was set up on the banks of the Yuba by an old provencal sailor called Sicard, one of the first successful gold miners in the region

France Tarascon
The chateau-du-Roi-Rene at Provencal Tarascon, which in legendary times was menaced by a monster, the fearsome Tarasque, which is still paraded in procession

Moustiers Sainte Marie
Picturesque provencal village; the star suspended between two cliffs dates from the Crusades, though it has periodically fallen and been replaced

Mistral / Fred / Nobel 1904
FREDERIC MISTRAL Provencal poet

Page from a Troubadour poem
A page from a Troubadour poem, written in Italian and Provencal, with decorated initial letters and decorated margins

Mistral / Frederic / Contemp
Frederic Mistral Provencal writer Nobel prizewinner

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