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[email protected] Edouard-Antoine Marsal (1845-1929) La Fondation du Félibrige, Les Sept Primadiers, 21 May 1854 Châteauneuf de Gadagne, Château de Font-Ségunge, Vaucluse Black and white chalk on blue paper 610 x 750 mm Signed and dated ‘E Marsal/ 1885’ lower right, mounted and in a contemporary simple gilt frame, glazed. The drawing illustrates the seven founders of the Félibrige movement in animated conversation within the courtyard of the Château de Font-Ségunge, Vaucluse, 9km from Avignon and home of Paul Giera. [from left to right] Alphonse Tavan (1833-1905) of Châteauneuf de Gadague-Rognac, poet, author of Vido Vidanti; Frédéric Mistral (1830-1914) of Maillane, author of Li Prouvençau 1852 Mirèio 1859 Calendau 1867 Lis Isclo d’or 1876 Lou Trésor dóu Félibrige 1878-86, Nobel Prize for Literature 1904; Joseph Roumanille (1818-1891) the Avignon publisher and bookseller, author of Li Margarideto 1847; Théodore Aubanel (1829-1886) the finest lyric poet of modern Provençal literature, and the master of modern Provençal drama, Avignon publisher and printer, author of Lou mióugrano entre-duberto 1860 Lou pan dou peccat 1882, Li Fiho d’Avignoun 1883, Lou Raubatòri 1872, Lou Rèire-Soulèu 1899; Anselme Mathieu (1828-1925) of Châteauneuf du Pape Jean Brunet (1834-1894) artist. [with his back to the viewer of the drawing] Paul Giera (1816-1861) known as Glaup; In 1854, Théodore Aubanel, together with six others, among them the Nobel prize winner Frédéric Mistral, founded the influential Provençal literary movement called Le Félibrige.