Jean Brunet (27 December 1822 – 23 October 1894) was a French Provençal poet.
Early life
Brunet was born on 27 December 1822 in
Avignon, in
Provence, France.
[Charles Pierre Julian, Anthologie du Félibrige provençal (1850 à nos jours) poésie : Les fondateurs du Félibrige et les premiers Félibres, Paris: Librairie Delagrave, 1920, pp. 208-211 [1]]
Career
On 21 May 1854, he co-founded the Félibrige movement with Joseph Roumanille, Frédéric Mistral, Théodore Aubanel,
Alphonse Tavan, Paul Giéra and
Anselme Mathieu.
[Joep Leerssen, Ann Rigney, Commemorating Writers in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Nation-Building and Centenary Fever, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, chapter 7 [2]]
He published collections of poems and sayings in Provençal.[ Musée des familles: Lectures du soir, 1867, Volume 34, p. 188]
Personal life
He was married to Cécile Brunet.
[Emilie Noulet, Dix poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé, Geneva, Switzerland: Librairie Droz, 1948, pp. 36-38 [4]] Stéphane Mallarmé, who was friends with the Brunets, wrote a poem entitled
Sainte about her.
Death
He died on 23 October 1894 in Avignon.
