Frédéric Mistral's Calendal - Cassis, France - Dead Poets' Society Memorials on Waymarking.com

The statue represents a young fisherman Cassidain, Calendal (or Calendau), hero of the famous poet and writer, Frédéric Mistral. It is the story of Calendal who falls madly in love with the fairy Estérel and who whenever he returns from the sea will have the look turned towards the hill like the statue that turns its back to the sea.

The larger than life statue of Calendal, is made of Cassis stone, an Urnonian limestone whose hardness makes it a material of choice for the erection of monuments. It is the reproduction of the statue created by Auguste Cornu in 1931 and destroyed by the occupation troops in 1944. The new statue completed in 1999 by Gérard Bouvier was inaugurated on 24 June 2000.

Frédéric Mistral is a French writer and lexicographer of Provençal oc language, born on September 8, 1830 in Maillane (Bouches-du-Rhône), where he died on March 25, 1914, and where he is buried.

Mistral was a founding member of the Félibrige, a member of the Academy of Marseille, master of games of the Academy of floral Games of Toulouse and, in 1904, Nobel prize for literature for his work Mirèio (Mireille). It is one of the rare Nobel prizes in literature not officially recognized in the state to which it belongs administratively (with Isaac Bashevis Singer).

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