Toward the end of the 12th century C.E., Pierre Valdès, or Peter Waldo, a rich merchant of Lyons, financed the first translations of parts of the Bible into various local dialects of Provençal, the vernacular language spoken in southern and southeastern France.
प्रोवॆन्सल दक्षिणी और दक्षिणपूर्वी फ्रांस में बोली जानेवाली प्रान्तीय भाषा है ।