Armand Lunel
Armand Lunel was a French writer and the last known speaker of Shuadit, a now-extinct Occitan language.Biography
Lunel was born in Aix-en-Provence, France, to a family that belonged to a Jewish subculture that had roots in the area for at least five centuries. After coming of age in the region, Lunel taught law and philosophy in Monaco. Lunel wrote extensively about the Jews of Provence.
He was a childhood friend of the composer Darius Milhaud, and wrote the librettos of Milhaud's operas Esther de Carpentras and Les malheurs d'Orphée. He also provided the libretto for Henri Sauguet's La chartreuse de Parme, premiered in 1939.
He married Rachel Suzanne Messiah, a daughter of architect Aron Messiah in 1920.
Most of the current knowledge about Lunel was collected by his son-in-law Georges Jessula.
