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The formation of the Provencal tongue-Vernacular ballads and songs: brought into church-Recitative and formal music-Rhythmic music of the people: traces of it in ancient times: S. Ambrose writes hymns to it-People sing folk-songs in church-Hymns composed to folk-airs-The language made literary by the Troubadours-Position of women-The ideal love-Ideal love and marriage could not co-exist-William de Balaun-Geofrey Rudel-Poem of Pierre de Barjac-Boccaccio scouts the Chivalric and Troubadour ideals.
WHAT the language of the Ligurians was we do not know. Among them came the Phœnicians, then the Greeks, next the Romans. The Roman soldiery and slaves and commercials did not talk the stilted Latin of Cicero, but a simple vernacular. Next came the Visigoths and the Saracens. What a jumble of peoples and tongues! And out of these tongues fused together the Langue d'oc was evolved.