Marius Bourrelly (1820–1896) was a French poet and playwright who wrote in

Provençal Provençal may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Provence, a region of France ** Provençal dialect, a dialect of the Occitan language, spoken in the southeast of France ** ''Provençal'', meaning the whole Occitan language * Provenca ...

Early life

Marius Bourrelly was born in 1820 in

Aix-en-Provence Aix-en-Provence, or simply Aix, is a List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, city and Communes of France, commune in southern France, about north of Marseille. A former capital of Provence, it is the Subprefectures in France, s ...

, France.

Career

Bourrelly wrote many poems, plays, legends and songs in

. In a poem, he praised Emperor

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for visiting

Lyon Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...

shortly after the flood of 1856. He became a member of the

Félibrige The ''Félibrige'' (; in classical Occitan, in Mistralian spelling, ) is a literary and cultural association founded in 1854 by Frédéric Mistral and other Provençal writers to defend and promote the Occitan language (also called the ) and ...

Death and legacy

Bourrelly died in 1896. He bequeathed his personal library to the

Bibliothèque Méjanes The Bibliothèque Méjanes is the municipal public library of Aix-en-Provence, France. Inaugurated on 16 November 1810 as a part of the Hôtel de Ville (City Hall) of Aix-en-Provence, the library moved into a former match factory in 1989. Since 19 ...

Works

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References

1820 births 1896 deaths Writers from Aix-en-Provence French male poets 19th-century French poets Occitan-language poets 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights 19th-century French male writers {{France-poet-stub