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Arnaud de Saleta was a
Arnaud de Saleta was a cleric
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and Béarnese poet
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who served during the establishment of a Protestant
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state in the Kingdom of Navarra
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The medieval state took ...
in the 16th century.
De Salette is one of two poets to be commissioned by Queen Jeanne d'Albret
Jeanne d'Albret ( Basque: ''Joana Albretekoa''; Occitan: ''Joana de Labrit''; 16 November 1528 – 9 June 1572), also known as Jeanne III, was Queen of Navarre from 1555 to 1572.
Jeanne was the daughter of Henry II of Navarre and Margar ...
to translate the Psalms
The Book of Psalms ( or ; he, תְּהִלִּים, , lit. "praises"), also known as the Psalms, or the Psalter, is the first book of the ("Writings"), the third section of the Tanakh, and a book of the Old Testament. The title is derived ...
into Occitan language
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in 1568 (the other being Pey de Garros
Pey de Garros ( modern Gascon: ''Pèir de Garròs''; 1530–1585), was the most important Occitan poet of the Renaissance. He was instrumental in the evolution of the Gascon dialect into a literary language.
Garros was born at Lectoure, Gascony ...
who made a translation into the Gascon dialect
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). His translation was published in 1583 with its music score under the title "Psalmes de David metuts en rima bernesa".
According to critic Robèrt Lafont Robèrt Lafont (; March 16, 1923 in Nîmes – June 24, 2009 in Florence) was a French intellectual from Provence. He was a linguist, an author, an historian, an expert in literature and a political theoretician. His name in French reads Rober ...
, Arnaud de Salette is the first known Béarnese writer to use the dialect rather than the standard Occitan language..''Arnaud de Salette est le premier écrivain béarnais connu qui utilise la langue du pays.'' Op cit, 301. "Arnaud de Salette is the first known Béarnese writer who uses the idiom of the country".
Bibliography
* Salette, Arnaud de. ''Los Psalmes de David Metuts en Rima Bernesa''.Orthez
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It lies 40 km NW of Pau on the Southern railway to Bayonne. The town also encompasses the sm ...
: Per Noste, 1983.
* Anatole, Christian - Lafont, Robèrt. ''Nouvelle histoire de la littérature occitane''. Paris
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: P.U.F., 1970.
* ''Arnaud de Salette et son temps : le Béarn sous Jeanne d'Albret : colloque international d'Orthez, 16, 17 et 18 février 1983''. Orthez : Per Noste, 1984.
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