Jean Joseph Marius Diouloufet (19 September 1771, in Éguilles – 19 May 1840, in Cucuron) was a Provençal poet.
Biography As a seminarian, Diouloufet had to leave Provence for Italy with the advent of the French Revolution.
Under the Empire, he became a trader in Aix-en-Provence.René Merle - “L’écriture du provençal” He made friends with Ambroise Roux-Alphéran, who lived on the same street as him.rue Longue-Saint-Jean, now named after Roux-Alphéran: Le quartier Mazarin d'Aix-en-Provence. A librarian in Aix, he was dismissed during the French Revolution of 1830.
His Provençal poetry, fables and tales didn't go unnoticed at the time of publication. His work is pervaded by the use of a very raw strand of Provençal. By the end of his life, he finished a French-Occitan dictionary.Antiquarian Books :: ILAB-LILA :: International League of Antiquarian Booksellers
He died from apoplexy.Les Rues d'Aix, Roux-Alphéran, 1846-1848.
Bibliography 1819 : Lei Manhans (« silk verses » in provençal), poem in four parts (Leis Magnans, pouémo didactique, en quatre chants, eme de notos de la coumpousitien de M. Diouloufet) 1823 : Co-writes an anthology, Lo Boquet provençau. 1829 : Fablos, contes, epitros et autros pouesios prouvençalos (« Fables, poetry, epistles and other provençal poems »).livre-rare-book.com : site professionnel de livres d'occasion, anciens et modernes 1841 : Le Don Quichotte philosophe ou Histoire de l'avocat Hablard.Straat Antiquaren Catalogus
Roux-Alphéran also mentions « his pleasant songs, popular throughout the South of France from 1814 to 1815 », namely Alléluia on the return of the Bourbons.
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