Roumanille, JOSEPH (1818-91), born at St Remy (Bouches-du-Rhône), was successively teacher, printer's reader, and bookseller, and obtained the fame of being the greatest of modern Provençal poets, next after Mistral. He was one of the founders of the association of the Félibres (see PROVENÇAL LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE).
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 828
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