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[Louis]: [ Chuckles ] Armana dou Ventour en prouvençau espeli emé l'ajudo di mèstre dou felibrige pèr estruire e amusa lou brave pople miejournau. Veisoun (Vau-cluso), Vers lou Direitour de l'Armana dou Ventour, 1903, in-12 of 122-(40) pp., paperback, printed cover, partly unbound. VERY RARE ALMANAC DU VENTOUX, PRINTED IN PROVENÇAL LANGUAGE. This is the 5th year, the publication was between 1899 and 1914. The almanac itself occupies pages 3 to 8; the rest is a collection of poems and prose texts, all written in Provençal. The last 40 pages, unencumbered, contain advertisements in French and Provençal. The illustration includes 3 portraits of félibres, included in the pagination: Auzias Jouveau, Marius Jouveau and Jan Monné. A precious copy by Jean-Henri Fabre with an autograph signed by Louis Charrasse, the director of the publication, on a cover page: "A moun car e venera Mèstre, J.-Henri Fabre, emé touti mi vot e touti mi respèt, Veisoun, lou 15 de 9bre en 1902". Majoral of Félibrige, Clément Xavier Louis Charrasse (1868-1927) was a Provençal teacher and writer; this almanac contains several of his writings, texts or poems.