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Flamenca: A Wake For A Dying Civilization, Henri A. Jeanjean

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

Le Roman de Flamenca, a mutilated anonymous manuscript discovered by chance in Carcassonne in 1834 by Raynouard, (who gave it the name of its heroine) and first translated by M. P. Meyer in 1865, has become one of the most written about works in Occitan. Its graceful style has been noted and its psychology and realism have been commented upon by Nelli and Lavaud, who stress that this poem had a fundamental role in the development of French literature as the Occitan romances (jaufre and Flamenca) started the long tradition which lead to Marcel Proust via the Princesse de Cleves. …