Antonin Perbòsc

His first job was as a primary school teacher in Comberouger, a small town 30km off Montauban, and later in Loze, near Villefranche-de-Rouergue.

The members of this club had a mission of collecting the oral patrimony around them, in other words all the Occitan songs, sayings, proverbs and tales they could come across where they lived.

Perbòsc's innovative work was noted by folk specialists at the 1900 Congrès des traditions populaires in Paris.

The tales told by the children were phonetically transcribed so as to respect the local accents and intonations, which still gave rise to tensions both with Provençal and Gascon activists who had their own views on how to better spell Occitan.

Perbòsc also wrote poems, in magnificent style, which inspiration for he found in popular traditions.