Passejadas toponimicas - Pau Fabre

Passejadas toponimicas - Pau Fabre

Paul Fabre's Passejadas toponimicas (Toponymic walks): a book of Occitan toponymy that is as pleasant to read as it is learned. Written in Occitan, it shows, if it were needed, that Occitan can be a language of study and discovery.
The author has succeeded in writing a book based on very serious knowledge in a simple language, within the reach of the greatest number. A work of popularization in the good sense of the term.
All scholar and erudite that he is, Paul Fabre knows how to laugh and make fun of the fancy explanations that one can too often meet and he corrects with vigor the errors of these ignorant or false scholars.

All along sixty short chronicles, the Passejadas toponimicas of Paul Fabre are a loving journey in the language of Oc, passing by hills, valleys, at the mercy of the waters, going through villages and cities of the Pays d'Oc.

Editions Letras d'òc.

The author:
Paul Fabre, born in 1935 in Nizas in the Hérault, was for many years a professor at the University of Montpellier. He is the author of numerous studies of toponymy and anthroponymy, works of linguistics and publications devoted to Occitan literature.
He has also published novels in French.