Despite centuries of efforts to make standardised French the language of all of France, Occitan, which is intrinsically tied to the local culture, could not be suppressed. Our Unique World Our Unique ...

Transmetre l’occitan es encara uèi malaisit. Cal pas brica comptar sul sosten de l’Estat francés, centralista, que crenta las lengas ditas "regionalas" e qu’es totjorn estat una empacha. Generacions e ...

AT A school near the Pyrenees, snowy hills rising behind, children are learning to read. Their teacher speaks gently, urging them to copy her pronunciation. Her words have some of the feel of Catalan, ...

Of the twenty-odd so-called regional languages spoken in metropolitan France, six are classed under the heading of Occitan or Langue d’Oc. Despite being spoken by over half a million people, and being ...

Post-revolutionary France tried to stamp it out, but working class communities kept speaking it. Now Occitan powers a vivacious and political European music scene It’s May Day in Marseille, and beyond ...

Participants carry flags with the Occitan cross in Montpellier, southern France on October 24, 2015, during a demonstration in favor of the Occitan language (langue d'oc), the ratification of the ...

Aussi truculent que vivant dans les expressions du Sud-Ouest, sur les panneaux de signalisation, dans la culture et les traditions populaires, l’occitan n’échappe pas à une "hémorragie" de ses ...

"+On est du pays de ceux qui nous ont aimés+, c'est le titre d'une de mes chansons", sourit Michel Maffrand, alias Joan de Nadau, chanteur du groupe occitan éponyme, 68 ans, auteur-interprète de 160 ...

Adishatz mond de Gèrç e de Comenge, adieu-siatz a vosautres tanben que escotatz França Blau Occitània a Tolosa o a Pàmias / à Pamiers ! Je vous souhaite à tous une bonne année / una bona annada, plan ...

Despite centuries of efforts to make standardised French the language of all of France, Occitan, which is intrinsically tied to the local culture, could not be suppressed. Our Unique World explores ...