Gai Saber draws its name from a medieval Occitan poetic academy that traces its roots to the regions influential troubadour culture.
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It was derived from a Provençal expression (gai saber) for the technical skill required for poetry-writing that had already been used by Ralph Waldo Emerson and E. S. Dallas and, in inverted form, by Thomas Carlyle in "the dismal science".