Armand_Lunel Armand Lunel (10 June 1892-1977) was a French writer and the last known speaker of Shuadit (Judeo-Provençal), a now-extinct Occitan language. He was a childhood friend of Darius Milhaud, and wrote the librettos of Milhaud's operas Esther de Carpentras ("Esther of Carpentras," 1938, based on Shuadit folklore) and Les malheurs d’Orphée ("The Misfortunes of Orpheus," 1924).