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graphy and definite grammatical form. The appearance of a master-work had given a wonderful impulse. The exuberance of the southern temperament responded quickly to the call for a manifestation of patriotic enthusiasm. The Catalan poets joined their brothers beyond the Pyrenees. The Floral games were founded. The Felibrige passed westward beyond the Rhone and found adherents in all south France. The centenary of Petrarch celebrated at Avignon in 1874 tended to emphasize the importance and the glory of the new literature. The definite organization of the Felibrige into a great society with its hierarchy of officers took place in 1876, with Mistral as _Capoulie_ (Chief or President). In this same year also the poet married Mdlle. Marie Riviere of Dijon, and this lady, who was named first Queen of the Felibrige by Albert de Quintana of Catalonia, the poet-laureate of the year 1878 at the great Floral Games held in Montpellier, has become at heart and in speech a Provencale. A third poem, _Nerto_, appeared in 1884, and showed the poet in a new light; his admirers now compared him to Ariosto. This same year he made a second journey to Paris, and was again the lion of the hour. The _Societe de la Cigale_, which had been founded in 1876, as a Paris branch of the Felibrige, and which later became the _Societe des Felibres de Paris_, organized banquets and festivities in his honor, and celebrated the Floral Games at Sceaux to commemorate the four hundredth anniversary of the day when Provence became united, of her own free-will, with France. Mistral was received with distinction by President Grevy and by the Count of Paris, and his numerous Parisian friends vied in bidding him welcome to the capital. His new poem was crowned by the French Academy, receiving the Prix Vitet, the presentation address being delivered by Legouve. Four years later, _Lou Tresor dou Felibrige_, a great dictionary of all the dialects of the _langue d'oc_, was completed, and in 1890 appeared his only dramatic work, _La Reino Jano_ (Queen Joanna). In 1897 he produced his last long poem, epic in form, _Lou Pouemo dou Rose_ (the Poem of the Rhone). At present he is engaged upon his _Memoirs_. Aside from his rare journeys to Paris, a visit to Switzerland, and another to Italy, Mistral has rarely gone beyond the borders of his beloved region. He is still living quietly in the little village of Maillane, in a simple but beautiful home, surrounded with wor
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