- Joseph Marius Diouloufet
Joseph Marius Diouloufet (
Éguilles ,19 September 1771 –Cucuron ,19 May 1840 ) was aProvençal poet .Biography
As a seminarian, Diouloufet had to leave
Provence forItaly with the advent of theFrench Revolution .Under the Empire, he became a trader in
Aix-en-Provence [ [http://www.rene-merle.com/article.php3?id_article=436 René Merle - “L’écriture du provençal”] ] . He made friends withAmbroise Roux-Alphéran , who lived on the same street as him. [Rue Longue-Saint-Jean, now named after Roux-Alphéran.] A librarian in Aix, he was dismissed during theFrench Revolution of 1830 .He died from
apoplexy . [ [http://clap.jac.free.fr/livre/longue%20st%20jean.html "Les Rues d'Aix", Roux-Alphéran, 1846-1848.] ]Work and themes
His
Provençal poetry, fables and tales didn't go unnoticed at the time of publication.fact|date=July 2007His work is pervaded by the use of a very raw strand of
Provençal .He died before finishing a French-
Occitan dictionary. [ [http://www.ilab.org/db/detail.php?booknr=332650776&source=vialibri&lang=en Antiquarian Books :: ILAB-LILA :: International League of Antiquarian Booksellers ] ] .Bibliography
*1819 : "Lei Manhans" (« silk verses » in
provençal ), poem in four parts "(Leis Magnans, pouémo didactique, en quatre chants, eme de notos de la coumpousitien de M. Diouloufet)"
*1823 : Co-writes an anthology, "Lo Boquet provençau".
*1829 : "Fablos, contes, epitros et autros pouesios prouvençalos" (« Fables, poetry, epistles and other provençal poems ») [ [http://www.livre-rare-book.com/Matieres/jd/11296c.html livre-rare-book.com : site professionnel de livres d'occasion, anciens et modernes ] ] .
*1841 : "Le Don Quichotte philosophe ou Histoire de l'avocat Hablard" [ [http://www.strt.nl/QMODLE.HTM Straat Antiquaren Catalogus ] ] .Roux-Alphéran also mentions « his pleasant songs, popular throughout the South of France from 1814 to 1815 », namely "Alléluia" on the return of the
Bourbons [ [http://clap.jac.free.fr/livre/longue%20st%20jean.html "Les Rues d'Aix", Roux-Alphéran, 1846-1848.] ] .References
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