Arnaud de Saleta was a Cleric  and Béarnese poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

 who served during the establishment of a Protestant state in the Kingdom of Navarra in the 16th Century

16th century

As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century lasted from 1501 to 1600. It is regarded by historians as the century in which the rise of the West occurred....

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De Salette is one of two poets to be commissioned by Queen Jeanne d'Albret to translate the Psalms

Psalms

The Book of Psalms , commonly referred to simply as Psalms, is a book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Bible...

 into western occitan languages in 1568 (the other being Pey de Garros

Pey de Garros

Pey de Garros , or Pèir de Garròs in modern Gascon, was the most important Occitan poet of the Renaissance. He was instrumental in the evolution of the Gascon dialect into a literary language....

 who made a translation into the gascon dialect). His translation was published in 1583 with its music score under the title "David Metuts en Rima Bernesa".

According to critic

Critic

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 Robèrt Lafont

Robèrt Lafont

Robèrt Lafont was an Occitan intellectual from Provence. He was a linguist, an author, an historian, an expert in literature and a political theoretician. His name in French reads Robert Lafont....

, Arnaud de Salette is the first known Béarnese writer to use the dialect rather than the more neutral occitan language.