Provence Becomes French
(Nick Dwyer)
December 11, 1481. After much negotiation and numerous threats from Louis XI, King of France, Charles of Maine, twenty-seventh count of Provence and Forcalquier, died without direct heirs and thus bequeathed his counties to the Crown. Five hundred years later, regionalization was the order of the day. But who knows really what constituted those areas, and how they were joined together with the field of the Capétien kings to form modern France? Roger Duchêne answers these questions by pointing out the historical evolution which, from the Roman occupation on the night of August 4, 1789, made Provence an original, sometimes sovereign and long time autonomous region. He shows how this union took place, peacefully and in a pseudo-democratic manner. He then evokes all the tensions between those opposing this centralisation of government and the defenders of the constitution of Provence - and all this while the French language was introduced without clashing with the langue d'oc elite who continued to speak this language on a daily basis.
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