Auvergnat Dialect - Poets

Poets

Poets using Auvergnat:

  • Louis Delhostal (1877–1933)
  • Faucon, La Henriade de Voltaire, mise en vers burlesques par Faucon, Riom ; 1798; Le Conte des deux perdrix
  • Roy Gelles, Le Tirage, poem, Clermont, 1836; Le Maire compétent, Clermont, 1841,
  • Camille Gandilhon Gens d'Armes
  • Ravel, La Paysade, epic poem ;
  • Joan de Cabanas

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