Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1914 — FRENCH POET MISTRAL DEAD [ARTICLE]

FRENCH POET MISTRAL DEAD

Noted Provencal Bard, Nobel Prise Winner, Expires at Age of EightyFour In Marseilles.

Marseilles, France.—Frederic Mistral, the celebrated Provencal poet, died here in his eighty-fourth year. In 1904 Mistral divided the Nobel prize for literature with Ecohegaray, the great Spanish dramatist He was a friend of Colonel Roosevelt, to whom he dedicated a poem in 1904. Most of his work, were written in the Provencal dialect His best known poem was “Mireille.” *