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Joseph Desanat
Joseph Desanat (1796-1873) was a French Provençal poet and journal editor.
Early life.
Joseph Desanat was born in 1796 in Tarascon.
Career.
Desanat was first a courtier. He then moved to Marseille, where he made charcuterie.
In 1841, Desanat founded "Lou Bouil-Abaïsso", a literary journal of Provençal poetry published in Marseille. The journal ran from 1841 to 1842, and from 1844 to 1846. Desanat encouraged his friend Jean-Baptiste Gaut to
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Career.
Gaut was encouraged to write poetry in Provençal by a friend, Joseph Desanat. He first wrote poetry for "Lou Bouil-Abaïsso", a literary journal started by Desanat. In 1852, Gaut was a co-author in a collection of poems in Provençal with Joseph Roumanille. That same year, they organised a conference to promote Provençal poetry in Arles, followed by a similar conference a year later, in 1853. Those conferences were the precursors to the Félibrige movement, founded in 1854