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
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
He published collections of poems and sayings in Provençal. His first poems were published in the French literary journal entitled Musée des familles in 1867.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 Stéphane Mallarmé, who was friends with the Brunets, wrote a poem entitled Sainte about her.
Death He died on 23 October 1894 in Avignon.
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