La réception des troubadours en Provence

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The French Renaissance celebrates Petrarch but ignores Occitan troubadours. We owe their rediscovery to the Vies of the most famous and ancient Provençal Poets of Provençal Jean de Nostredame, published in 1575 in Lyon in French and, the same year, in Italian. The influence of this founding work is considerable in France and in Europe during the next two centuries. In France, Nostradamus theories about medieval literary history are taken by scholars of the late XVIth and beginning of the XVIIth century, such as Claude Fauchet and Etienne Pasquier in whom we can see the founders of French literary historiography. In their turn, the ideas of these scholars are integrated in the reflections carried out from the 1640s in Languedoc by authors such as Pierre de Caseneuve or Pierre Borel. In Provence, finally, perpetuates, through many modalities, the teachings of Nostredame.