Toulouse « Capitale de la Langue Provençale » ou les troubadours vus par Pierre de Caseneuve (1659)

For Pierre de Caseneuve the domain “langue provençale” stretches to the south of France with Toulouse as its capital. Written with great erudition the Origine des Jeux fleureaux (1659) is, alongside Borel’s work, one of the first accounts of a cultural and linguistic consciousness which spreads beyond provincial or dialectal limits.