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Where does the name Camelat come from ?
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| The Gîte-auberge Camelat owes its name to Miquèu de Camelat, a poet of Gascogne born in the Arrens-Marsous village. Robert Arnaut tells us the long and rich hours he spent with Miquèu de Camelat : « The time I spent, in tête-à-tête, struck me for the rest of my life. He gave me his knowledge, almost with apologies. He taught me the value of silence. For most of his contemporaries, he was a grocer or the former mayor. So little a grocer ! So little a mayor ! And so much a poet ! His works is comparable with those of Mistral. Mistral, moreover, acknowledged it, and wrote to him : « your character of Beline is the Mireille’s sister ». I was always surprised not to find the name of Camelat in encyclopaedias, in general anthologies. I did not understand why the german, dutch, romanian erudites came to his home while french people seem to ignore his works. |
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Miquéù de Camelat
escriba gascou 1871 - 1962 |
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