Letter from Fr\u00e8deric Mistral to the supporters of the Barcelona Floral Games in which he reflects on the value of the Occitan and Catalan languages \u200b\u200band the abuse they are subjected to by the respective states. He also talks about common historical entities such as the Consulate of the Sea and the strong ties between the land, the language and the people. Written in Occitan, it includes a poem by the author. The linguistic claims of the Catalan literati, grouped in the Renaissance, and the Occitans, gathered in the felibrage, had been in parallel since the middle of the 19th century. The great diffusion of the Occitan movement in Catalan lands occurred in 1859 with the edition of Mistral’s Mir\u00e9io and the ties between them became closer when, after V\u00edctor Balaguer was welcomed in his exile by the Occitans (1865), Mistral and a large group of felibres attended in person the edition of the Jocs Florals of 1868, where the Capouli\u00e9 publicly recognized the value of the work of Jacint Verdaguer, then still a young promise of poetry.
\nThe reinstatement of the Floral Games in Barcelona in 1859 had a wide echo at European level and there were many relationships that were established between the organization of the Games and literati from all over Europe. The contacts were particularly fruitful, as has been said, with the Proven\u00e7al felibres, as well as with Johannes Fastenrath and the city of Cologne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14453,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"eix":[8],"class_list":["post-11063","document","type-document","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","eix-batecs-de-la-societat-catalana"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n