# Simin Palay

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**Jean-Maximin** called **Simin Palay**, ([Occitan](/source/Occitan_language): *Simin Palai*), (1874–1965) was a French [writer](/source/Writer); as a native [Béarnese](/source/B%C3%A9arnese_dialect) speaker, he wrote poetry and articles in this language. He also made numerous [philology](/source/Philology) studies on [Béarnese](/source/B%C3%A9arnese_dialect) and [gascon languages](/source/Gascon_language).

## Biography

Simin Palay was born at [Casteide-Doat](/source/Casteide-Doat), on the border between [Béarn](/source/B%C3%A9arn) and [Bigorre](/source/Bigorre), on 29 May 1874. He died at [Gelos](/source/Gelos) on 22 February 1965.

## Selected bibliography

### Poetry

- Bercets dé youénésse è coundes enta rise (1899)
- Sounets è quatourzis (1902)
- Case! (1909)
- Les Pregàries e las Gràcies (1926)
- Lou Bent qui passe (1958)

### Lexicography

- Dictionnaire du Gascon et béarnais modernes[1]

### Ethnography

- Autour de la table béarnaise (1932)
- La cuisine du pays (1936)
- Cansous entàus maynàdyes sus lous àyres (1900)
- Cansous trufanderes (1924)
- Chants de Béarn et de Gascogne (1951), in collaboration J.Poueigh

## References

1. Simin Palay & Escole Gastoû Febus (1991 [1932-1934]). '**Dictionnaire du gascon et du béarnais modernes'**. Paris: [CNRS](/source/CNRS). p. 1053. ISBN 2-222-01608-8.

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