Provençal is not written in isolation. The institutions, libraries and periodicals below preserve, publish and keep the language alive in Mistralian spelling; several of them fed the resources on this site directly. We list them because they are sources, not rivals.
Libraries and digitised collections
CIEL d'Oc
cieldoc.comThe International Centre for Writing in the Oc Language, based in Nîmes, digitises and freely publishes thousands of texts in oc: complete works, almanacs, journals and Félibrige bulletins. Its Virtual Library of the Tour Magne is the largest freely accessible Provençal collection in existence, and one of the sources of the Lingua Nostra corpus.
Gallica, BnF
gallica.bnf.frThe digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. It holds the Armana prouvençau, the Félibrige periodicals of the nineteenth century and early editions of the major Provençal authors, in facsimile and in recognised text.
Institutions
The Félibrige
felibrige.orgFounded on 21 May 1854 at the château of Font-Ségugne by Frédéric Mistral and six companions, the Félibrige is the body that gave Provençal its spelling, the one used throughout this site. It publishes the review La Revisto, awards the Grands Jeux floraux and elects its Queen every seven years.
Museon Arlaten
museonarlaten.frThe museum of Provençal ethnography in Arles, founded by Mistral in 1896 and endowed with the money from his Nobel Prize in Literature. It preserves the objects, costumes and testimonies of the Provençal life described in the Tresor dóu Felibrige.
Press and archives
Prouvènço d'aro
prouvenco-aro.comA monthly newspaper written entirely in Provençal, one of the few living periodicals in the language, and also a regional publishing house (oustau d'edicioun regiounau). The site carries the editorial of the month, the publishing catalogue and an online dictionary.
Langues provençale et niçoise
prouvenco.presso.free.frAn archive of news about the languages of Provence around the turn of the 2000s: census surveys, school policy for teaching Provençal, debates on the status of the language. A record of recent struggles found nowhere else.
These links lead to third-party sites, which Lingua Nostra neither publishes nor controls. Found an address that no longer works? Write to us and we will correct it.