Words for pupils

Mon ami Monsieur Paul, now 87, used to speak Occitan language all the time. Now  he only talks to himself. "Lo che se  bagna, se seca" explains to me, when I spill water onto his floor.
I will ask him to tell me  about King Ataulphe, who saved Saint Mathiew from the vandals and chased them untill Spain to be sure they would not come back.