The Passion of Occitan

The fragment in Auvergnat (Northern Occitan) in the Passion d'Auvergne is part of a two-folio interpolation dated to 1477, the year when the Passion was performed in Montferrand. Most of the interpolation is in French, but 66 lines are in Auvergnat. Some sixty years before Villers-Cotterets, Occitan has already been displaced Montferrand. The language of culture and of entertainment is French; Occitan exists for comic relief.