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Article published In: Researching Occitan in the 21st Century: Un dialòg interdisciplinari
Edited by Marc Olivier and Anna Paradis
[Revue Romane 60:1] 2025
► pp. 43–72

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The curious case of an Occitan sonnet (BdT 96,7) in troubadour chansonnier f

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Published online: 2 December 2025
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https://doi.org/10.1075/rro.25006.fra
Abstract
The paper examines an Old Occitan sonnet series in chansonnier f, with particular attention to the one attributed to the troubadour Blacasset. The research focuses on the authenticity of the sonnets, the potential involvement of Jehan de Nostredame in its forgery, and the reasons why their true author found it appropriate to attribute one of them to Blacasset. The sonnets are analysed in terms of their linguistic and metrical characteristics, suggesting a possible 15th-century composition with French and Occitan influences. The historical-political context is explored as well, hinting at references to the relationships between the people of Provence and the houses of Aragon and Anjou. The paper discusses the hypotheses proposed by Paul Meyer in Meyer, P. (1871): Les derniers troubadours de la Provence d’après le chansonnier donné à la Bibliothèque Impériale par M. Ch. Giraud. Paris, Franck.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar, underlining new elements suggesting an earlier dating and questioning the real involvement of Nostredame’s apocryphal hand.
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • 1.The sonnet as a poetic genre
  • 2.Author attribution and history of the chansonnier
    • 2.1The troubadour Blacasset
    • 2.2Chansonnier f
      • 2.2.1Sonnet series in chansonnier f, first two sonnets
  • 3.BdT 96,7: Text and analysis
    • 3.1The restitutio textus
    • 3.2Metrical-linguistic analysis and possible chronological setting of the sonnet series
    • 3.3Historical setting and content interpretation of sonnet (6)
    • 3.4Authorship attribution: Counterarguments to Meyer’s thesis
    • 3.5Authorship attribution: Arguments in favour of Meyer’s thesis
  • Conclusions and desiderata
  • Notes
  • References
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