Maillane

Mistral, the poet, is the master-singer of them all, and whether he chants of his "Own glad Kingdom of Provence," at Maillane among the olive-trees, far inland, or of:

The Automobilist Abroad

Maillane is the honour of the countryside, and takes its name from the month of May.

Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Richard Le Gallienne 1906

In Arles Mistral is a well-known, beloved figure, for it is his custom, every Saturday, to come there from Maillane, to cast his eye over the progress of his museum, the pet scheme of his old age.

Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Richard Le Gallienne 1906

Several suggestions were made for a name for this brotherhood, but presently Mistral announced that in an old folk-story he had collected at his birthplace, Maillane, he believed that he had found the word they were in search of.

Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Richard Le Gallienne 1906

Adolphe Dumas had been sent to Provence in the year 1856 by the Minister of Public Instruction to collect the folk-songs of the people, and calling on Mistral (then twenty-six), living quietly with his widowed mother at Maillane, he had found him at work on _Mirèio_.

Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Richard Le Gallienne 1906

The fact about the pronunciation of the ch is that it varies in different places, having at Maillane the sound ts, at Avignon, for instance, the sound in the English chin.

Frederic Mistral Downer, Charles A 1901

The pronunciation of the Felibres is heard among the people at Maillane and round about.

Frederic Mistral Downer, Charles A 1901

Maillane is a village, near Saint-Remy, situated in the centre of a broad plain that lies at the foot of the Alpilles, the westernmost rocky heights of the Alps. Here the poet is still living, and here he has passed his life almost uninterruptedly.

Frederic Mistral Downer, Charles A 1901

He is still living quietly in the little village of Maillane, in a simple but beautiful home, surrounded with works of art inspired by the Felibrean movement.

Frederic Mistral Downer, Charles A 1901

The language of the Felibres is based upon the dialect spoken in the plain of Maillane, in and about the town of Saint-Remy.

Frederic Mistral Downer, Charles A 1901