MISTRAL FRÉDÉRIC (1830-1914)

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MISTRAL FRÉDÉRIC (1830-1914)
Autograph poem, À Lamartine, in Provençal and in French, Maillane 8 September 1859; 2 pages in-4 (repaired cracks), tabbed, olive morocco binding, gilt filets inside frame (Canape and Corriez, 1930). Complete manuscript of the ode to Lamartine, intended to appear as a dedication at the head of Mirèio. It was in February 1859 that the first edition of Mirèio was published in Avignon (Avignon, J. Roumanille), immediately hailed by Lamartine in his xLe entretien du Cours familier de littérature and long celebrated as "the appearance of an epic poem in Provence". Very moved, Mistral wanted to express his admiration and gratitude to Lamartine by dedicating his work to him; he then composed this ode to Lamartine (dated 8 September 1859), which was to serve as a dedication to the second edition of Mireille (Charpentier, 1860); but the publisher Charpentier refused to insert the entire poem and only printed the fourth stanza at the head of the book, now dedicated to Lamartine. Mistral collected the Odo to Lamartino in Lis Isclo d'Or (1876). The complete poem includes six rhyming quatrains in Provençal, translated into French on another page: "S'ai l'ur que moun barquet sus l'oundo s'amatine Sènso cregne l'ivèr, À tu benedicioun, o divin Lamartine"..... "Si j'ai l'heur que ma nacelle sur l'onde s'aventure de bonne heure, - sans craindre l'hiver, - à toi bénédiction, o divin Lamartine, - qui en a pris le gouvernail ! Let us quote again the famous fourth stanza, which now serves as a dedication to Mireille but presents here slight variations: "Te counsacre moun libre: es moun cor e moun amo, Es la flour de mis an; Es de rasin de Crau qu'emé touto sa ramo Te porge un païsan"... "I dedicate my book to you: it is my heart and soul, - it is the flower of my years; - it is grapes from Crau that with all their leaves - offers you a peasant"
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