Arsene Vermenouze

Arsene Vermenouze (1850-1910) (in Occitan Arsèni Vermenosa ) was a Poète auvergnat, author of works in occitan and French.

He was born on September 26th 1850 in Vielles, commune of Ytrac, close to Aurillac. His/her father, Firmin Vermenouze is commercial of grocer in Spain. It was of use at the time the wives and the children remain in Auvergne where one turned over a few months after a trade campaign two years.

It is at 16 years that it joined his father with Tolède. It will remain nearly twenty years in Castille. While taking part in the trade, it composes of many French poems. As from 1879, it sends its first poems to various newspapers of the Cantal.

Since 1887, in the Monitor of the Cantal , then in the Cross of the Cantal and the Chantillian Cross , Arsène Vermenouze animates the cultural life and political Chantillian by publishing satirical poetries in Langue of oc. In the Cross of the Cantal , it will be “Arverne”, leader-writer in catholic French language deeply and patriotic.

In 1894, he is the author of the proclamation founder “has tota Auvèrnha” and becomes the Capiscòl first École Auvergnate ( Escolo oubergnato ), which assigns for mission the defense and the illustration of the language auvergnate, in particular through its review Lo Cobreto. Until 1900, within the Félibrige, Vermenouze has an intense activity of promoter of the language of oc, composing the poems which will enter its second large Languedocien collection Jos Clujada. In 1900, he is elected “majoral” of Félibrige and meets Frederic Mistral which accommodates it like “first majoral” of Auvergne. He dies in his native house of Hurdy-gurdies on January 8th 1910.

Works

Flor de Broussa of heather '' (1896), in occitan (preceded by the Academy of the floral Plays)
Jos Clujada stubbles it (1909), in occitan
In full wind (1900), in French
My Auvergne (1903), in French (price of poetry Archon-Despérouses of the French Academy)
taken care Dernières (1911), posthumous in French

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