page_title: Antonin Perbòsc
hierarchical_section_title: Antonin Perbòsc
caption_attribution_description: English: Antonin Perbòsc's portrait by Eugèni Trutat (19th century/early 20th century), taken from the Public Library of Toulouse Français&#160;: Portrait d'Antonin Perbos par Eugène Trutat (19ème siècle / début du 20ème siècle), Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse Occitan&#160;: Retrach d'Antoni Perbòsc fach per Eugèni Trutat (sègle XIX/debuta sègle XX), pres de la Bibliotèca de Tolosa (Occitània)
context_page_description: Antonin Perbòsc was a poet from Occitania, France. He was born in Labarthe, Tarn-et-Garonne in 1861 and died in 1944 in Montauban. His first job was as a primary school teacher in Comberouger, a small town 30km off Montauban, and later in Loze, near Villefranche-de-Rouergue. He'd teach his pupils about the region's traditions and cultural heritage and even formed a society for the more eager among them. The so-called societat tradicionista gathered 51 schoolgoers, both male and female, between 1900 and 1908.
  The members of this club had a mission of collecting the oral patrimony around them, in other words all the Occitan songs, sayings, proverbs and tales they could come across where they lived. They'd then write them down without changing a single word. The younger pupils, who couldn't write yet, would tell what they heard and their older schoolmates would do the writing part for them. Perbòsc's innovative work was noted by folk specialists at the 1900 Congrès des traditions populaires in Paris.
context_section_description: Antonin Perbòsc was a poet from Occitania, France. He was born in Labarthe, Tarn-et-Garonne in 1861 and died in 1944 in Montauban. His first job was as a primary school teacher in Comberouger, a small town 30km off Montauban, and later in Loze, near Villefranche-de-Rouergue. He'd teach his pupils about the region's traditions and cultural heritage and even formed a society for the more eager among them. The so-called societat tradicionista gathered 51 schoolgoers, both male and female, between 1900 and 1908.
  The members of this club had a mission of collecting the oral patrimony around them, in other words all the Occitan songs, sayings, proverbs and tales they could come across where they lived. They'd then write them down without changing a single word. The younger pupils, who couldn't write yet, would tell what they heard and their older schoolmates would do the writing part for them. Perbòsc's innovative work was noted by folk specialists at the 1900 Congrès des traditions populaires in Paris. The tales told by the children were phonetically transcribed so as to respect the local accents and intonations, which still gave rise to tensions both with Provençal and Gascon activists who had their own views on how to better spell Occitan. These works can no longer be found.
  Perbòsc also wrote poems, in magnificent style, which inspiration for he found in popular traditions.
caption: Antonin Perbòsc.
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