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A Provencal soldier and poet, whose life is wrapt in romantic mystery.
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The old man, a taciturn Provencal, was in no haste to answer.
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She became abstracted and uneasy; jealousy of the Provencal possessed her.
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Everything was cooked in oil: being a Provencal, that was what he adored.
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Both are known in Provencal by the name herbo dou tarnagas, or Shrike-herb.
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An Occitan to his fingertips, he was worldly and indulgent and easy.
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Not Occitan, he thought, not even French; dark, with dark eyes, long ears.
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The title seems to come from the 12th-century Occitan troubadour song on which Philip has based his piece.
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"Good evening, my dear girls," he said, in his informal, Occitan drawl.
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Commentators catchphrases inspired by Occitan, an original language in southern France's rugby heartland, have become famous across the whole country.
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They had grown up together, and he had always loved her, an older brother, a fellow Occitan, her favorite knight.
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The narrow cobbled streets, crowded with shops, loud with people all speaking Occitan, even the steep familiar hillside gladdened her heart.
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You are a true Occitan; do you want these cold northerners with their callused knees and their greedy fingers ruling our sweet land forever?
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The Occitan people themselves had seemed different to her than those in Paris: loud, but not harsh; forceful, but not judging; proud, but not contemptuous.