Occupation Poet Name Anselme Mathieu | Role Poet | |
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Born April 21, 1828 Chateauneuf-du-Pape, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France Died February 8, 1895, Chateauneuf-du-Pape, France | ||
Anselme Mathieu (April 21, 1828 – February 8, 1895) was a French Provençal poet.
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Early life
Anselme Mathieu was born April 21, 1828 in Châteauneuf-du-Pape. His parents were the fourth-generation owners of the Domaine Mathieu, a vineyard still in operation today.
Poetry
Mathieu was a Provençal poet. He published poems in Armana prouvençau under the pseudonym of Félibre di Poutoun.
On May 21, 1854, he co-founded the Félibrige movement with Joseph Roumanille, Frédéric Mistral, Théodore Aubanel, Jean Brunet, Paul Giéra and Alphonse Tavan.
He published La Farandole, a collection of poems, in 1862. Mistral contributed the foreword.
Wine
Mathieu introduced the co-founders of the Félibrige to the red wine produced by his family vineyard. Moreover, he introduced it to Alphonse Daudet, another writer from Provence, who called it, "royal, imperial, pontifical."
Additionally, Mathieu introduced Alexandre Dumas and Alphonse Lamartine, two writers from Paris, to this wine.
Death
He died on February 8, 1895.