Such artifices, indeed, were not unknown in the old Provençal poetry of which Dante had learned something.

The Albigensian movement, connected so strangely with the history of Provençal poetry, is deeply tinged with it.

Some of the Provençal poetry is of the highest artistic significance, though the mass of it is worthless high-flown trash.

De Sade says, that what is termed Provençal poetry was much more cultivated by the Languedocians than by the Provençals, properly so called.