Bernat Manciet

Manciet attended school first in his native Sabres and then spent three years in the lycée of Talence where he lived at his uncles', who were priests.

Back in the Landes, he wed, fathered five children and ran his step-family's company, only for it to go bankrupt after ten years.

Bernat Manciet managed Òc magazine but always refused to side with such Occitan activists as Robèrt Lafont and Max Roqueta, with whom he nonetheless was quite friendly.

A poet, a novelist, a playwright, an essayist, a literary review director, an artist... Bernat Manciet also came on stage to recite his poems and even took part in shows alongside Bernard Lubat in Uzeste.

In 1972 already, Renat Nelli wrote about Manciet in a bilingual collection of poems called La Poésie occitane (published by Seghers):