Pèire Godolin
Pèire Godolin, whose name is often Frenchified to Pierre Goudouli, or even Pierre Goudelin was born in 1580 in Toulouse where he died on the 10 September 1649, was an Occitan poet. He wrote in the Toulouse dialect. A Toulouse poet of the start of the 17th century He was the son of Raymond Godolin, a Catholic lawyer, he also worked in law after studying with the Jesuits. He started his career in a Toulouse society noted for the violence of religious wars. Towards 1600, the town and its local parliament were taken over by Henry IV of France. The cultural elite were watched until 1610. At this time, Peyre Godolin became known as the most inventive of the local poets, who included his friend the Gascon poet Bertrand Larade, later Guilhem Ader and Jean-Géraud d'Astros, for using the range of languages' registers. But without doubt because of this independence of spirit, he never got to receive any recompense from the Floralia, apart from one minor one, for a poem to King Henry IV, in French. Noticed by the towns governor, Adrien de Montluc-Montesquiou, he became the writer of poetry and popular shows at the time of carnivals in Toulouse