Toulouse, Southern dialects, works of P. Godolin, 1843

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Works of P. Godolin preceded by a biography of Godolin, his eulogy delivered in 1808, and a historical and literary study on the southern dialects... illustrated with plates... with literal French translation facing the text by J. M. Cayla & Cléodule Paul

Published by Delboy, Toulouse, 1843, in-4°, paperback, untrimmed, fragile spine, CXIX, 604 pp., followed by a dictionary of the Toulouse dialect, 47 pp., some faint foxing.
The most important of the Toulouse poets and of the southern poets at a time when Toulouse, capital of the Languedoc estates, was the "second city of the foremost kingdom of Europe," Godolin ceaselessly sings and portrays the complex, multifaceted image of a Toulouse society—Occitan, French, undergoing complete transformation...