Michel Camélat

Michel Camélat (more known under its Gascon name Miquèu Camelat ) (1871, Arrens - 1962, Tarbes) is commercial, playwright, poet and French writer in language Gascon E.

Its life

Born on January 26th 1871 with Arrens, in Bigorre, in the Lavedan, department of the Hautes-Pyrénées, Michel Camélat (Miquèu Camelat) is the only son of a shoe-maker. After secondary studies with the small seminar of Saint-EP-with-Bigorre, he refuses to become priest and must return at his place in 1887 where he devotes himself to the Gascon and his literature. At this point in time he discovers the work of Félibres. In 1890, it obtains a first price of poetry in Félibrée of Tarbes and meets Simin Palay with which it launches in 1893 “Armanac Gascoun”. It then decides to give up the Gascon " lavedanais" of its village for the inhabitant of Béarn who will allow him to be read in all Gascogne. In 1896, it takes part in the foundation of Escolo Gastou Febus which federates Gascon Félibrige, then to that of its review “Reclams de Bearn E Gascounhe” in 1897. It is the year when it Marie with Catherine Augé and settles definitively with Arrens of which he will be the mayor of 1900 with 1904. The couple will have four children, of which two will die in low age. Recognized by Félibrige since the publication of “Beline”, Camélat directs from 1910 to 1914 the Gascon popular semi-monthly “the Ends of the Earth”, with the line plus separatist that “Reclams”. After mobilizebeing mobilized during the First World War, it binds friendship with the poet André Pic. He dies on November 19th 1962 in his daughter with Tarbes.

Its work

Very influenced by Frederic Mistral, Camélat wrote three epopees and dramas in Gascon worms: Beline in 1899, Mourte E Bibe in 1920 and Lole in 1939. Very attracted by the theater, he is also the author of “entertainments” like Griset nouste in 1911, Roubi lou sounadou and With the soft aygue nou-b hidet in 1912 and Lou darrè Calhabari in 1916. Without forgetting its tragedy of Gastou-Febus , written in 1914. He is also the author of poetries and news joined together in the espigue aus known as in 1934 and Cock-fucking in 1937. More of the anthologies devoted to the Gascon literature like Garbe of pouesies in 1928 or Garbe of proses in 1933.

Quotations

Aco ray ! You èy, migue, that èy in abounde

Lous gays, lous bounurs as in subermesure!

Daune, daune aymade, oun are, oun segnoureyes,

You, the daune badude top paradge,

Digne of espousa lou coumte Febus; worthy

Per the noubless deu toû blood, per the tracking

Toue, O Daune, as of time that you esperabi!

Oey, permou of you, beroye, que' m destaqui

Of aqueres amous covers of which me embrumen…

Nou' N hès arré, oey that EM with the die de' T coélhe.

Oun be amigue? Parech, enbisaglante,

That lou coumte Febus E se' N renabesque!

That are aquiu… That crey de' T will sarra, that you escapes…

(What imports! If I have you, my crumb, I have abundance of joys; and of happiness I have more than sufficiency! O, O loved mistress, where are you ram? Where reign your capacity, rams it to you born of noble lineage, worthy to marry the count Fébus, worthy by the nobility of your blood, by your race, O rams, I await you since so a long time! For you today I am detached from these low loves which sadden me… You do not do anything of it, the day came where we will seek you. Where are you, my crumb? Show yourself, dazzling, that the count Fébus finds a new youth there! Te here… I believe to tighten you and you escape…)

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