Louisa Paulin et Max Rouquette : reconnaissance littéraire, dissensions graphiques et rendez-vous manqués by Philippe Gardy

“…But very quickly this mutual recognition turns short: engaged the one and the other in fights for the Occitan language which did not borrow exactly the same intellectual weapons and, initially, linguistic, it followed a chain of misunderstandings of which several correspondences help to measure the origin and the developments. …”
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Un terrain d’expérimentation au long cours : Robert Lafont et la Revue des langues romanes by Philippe Gardy

“…Robert Lafont, a professor at the University of Montpellier, where he spent his entire career in higher education, was for many years (between 1964 and 2004) a regular contributor to the Revue des langues romanes, a publication to which he was attached, beyond obvious scientific motivations, by more personal circumstances, of which only a few elements have been evoked here, not the least of which was his commitment, following the example of his teacher and friend Charles Camproux, in favor of the Occitan language. This no doubt explains why Lafont made the RLaR, in the long run, the place of experimentation for his own research. …”
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L’Idée latine du Félibrige et la Renaissance romanche 1874-1914 by Bettina Berther Desax

“…In this period of literary and linguistic revival of Occitan language, the Romansh Renaissance movement followed the example of the Félibres. …”
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Les mots de la religion et de la superstition dans le Dictionnaire Languedocien d’Augustin Bonet (xviiie siècle) by Claire Torreilles

“…In this work, the numerous quotations derived from various 17th century Occitan religious writings (La Bido de sant Benoist by Bernard Grimaud, L’exercici de la fe by Barthélémy Amilha) show a humanist scholar as concerned with religious instruction from a post-Tridentine standpoint as with the study of the Occitan language as such and its literature. From Grimaud’s Virgilian digressions to Amilha’s famous canticles, the excerpts chosen to illustrate the definitions of the headwords provide a genuine poetic pleasure. …”
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L’emplec dels pronoms subjèctes e la lenga d’Augièr Galhard by Patric Sauzet

“…The present paper intends to show that this is not (as has been argued) a mere imitation of the French pattern, but rather a reflex of the grammatical evolution of the Occitan language. Specifically it is assumed that loss of morphological case marking in nouns, along with its preservation in pronouns, allowed intensive use of subject pronouns. …”
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Hélène Cabanes-Gracia (1919-2010), Itinerari d’una ensenhaira occitana by Philippe Canales

“…Responsible for the Public Education Office of the Société d'Études Occitanes, the SEO, by creating the Antonin Perbosc Group using Freinet techniques which she pushes to the end by bringing out the Occitan language of child's words. She created La Garba occitana, a compilation of children's occitan writings, and at the same time engaged in the creation of a political literary magazine, L'Ase negre. …”
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L’édition de manuels scolaires en langues régionales by Claire Torreilles

“…The round table allowed to exchange on the issues of pedagogical editing in Basque, Breton, Corsican and Occitan languages, to take stock of the existing structures and their functioning, to present the current editorial priorities. …”
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