Rene Nelli

Rene Nelli (° the February 20th 1906 with Carcassonne - † the March 11th 1982 with Carcassonne)

Arts doctor, teaching with the University of Toulouse, poet, essay writer, hermetist, Rene Nelli is especially known for his work on the culture occitane and the Catharisme.

In the years 1928-1930, and until in 1950, Rene Nelli was very dependant with the poet Joe Bousquet and took at its sides an active share with the development of the Mediterranean surrealism . This movement developed then, a little in margin of Parisian surrealism, in Marseilles in the Books of the South, and in Carcassonne around the Chantiers review.

It directed the review of southernmost ethnology Folklore and played a big role with regard to the knowledge of the culture occitane, in particular out of Co-flux in 1946, with Toulouse, the Institut of studies occitanes .

It devoted many works to the Catharisme. It founded also the National center of studies cathares which today bears its name.

Like Fernand Niel, and much of others, it took its first steps in the study of the catharism by attending Déodat Roché.

Some works

Dictionary of the heresies and the movements hétérodoxes or independent appeared in the South of France since the establishment of Christianity , Privat 1968
the erotic of the troubadours , Toulouse, Privat, 1963
the Novel of Flamenca, an art to like occitanien in XIIIe century , Toulouse, Institute of studies occitanes, 1966
Cathares , Marabout university, 1972
Of Cathares of the Languedoc at the 13th century , Hatchet 1969
the Phenomenon cathare - philosophical prospects and morals , Privat 1988
Writings cathares , ED. rock, 1994
Great mysteries of Western hermetism , ED. rock, 1991

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