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AUGUSTE MARSEILLE BARTHELEMY (1796–1867)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 448 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AUGUSTE MARSEILLE

BARTHELEMY (1796–1867)  , French satirical poet, was born atMarseilles in 1996 . His name can hardly be separated from that of his friend and compatriot, J . P . A . Mery (1798–1866), with whom he carried on so intimate a collaboration that it is not possible to distinguish their personalities in their joint
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works . After having established some
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local reputation as a poet, Barthelemy went to Paris, where by one of his first efforts, Le Sacre de Charles X (1825) he gained the favour of the court . His energies, however, were soon enlisted in the service of the opposition party . In 1825 appeared a
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clever
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political satire,
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Les Sidiennes, followed by La Villeliade ou la prise du chdteau de Rivoli (1827), La Corbiereide (1827), La Peyronneide(1827),the joint productions of Barthelemy and Mery . The success was immediate and pronounced; fifteen
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editions of the Villeliade were called for during the
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year . A rapid succession of political squibs and satires was now poured forth by the authors, among the most remarkable being Biographic
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des quarante de 1'academie francaise (1826) and
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Napoleon en Egypte (1828), which passed through nearly a dozen editions in a year . In 1829 Barthelemy was imprisoned and fined
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I000 francs for the publication of their Fils de l'homme, a poem on the duke of Reichstadt, Napoleon's son . The Revolution of 1830 liberated him; and in
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company with Mery, he celebrated the triumph of the
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people in one of their most brilliant efforts, L'Insurrection .

From

March 1831 to
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April 1832 they produced a series of verse satires issued weekly, the
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Nemesis, attacking the government and ministers of Louis Philippe . The small pension of which Barthelemy was the recipient was stopped . When the publication ceased there was a strong suspicion that Barthelemy had been paid for his silence . . In 1832 he published an
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anonymous poem, supporting some acts of the government which were peculiarly obnoxious to the Liberal party . This change of front destroyed his influence and his later writings passed unnoticed . For the next few years he enjoyed a handsome pension from the government and refrained from all satirical writing . He again resumed his old style in 1844 but without the former success . From that date he contented himself with merely occasional poems . Barthelemy died on the 23rd of August 1867 at
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Marseilles . Joseph Mery was an ardent romanticist and wrote a
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great number of stories now forgotten . He produced several pieces at the Paris theatres, and also collaborated with Gerard de Nerval in adapta-. tions from Shakespeare and in other plays . He received a pension from Napoleon III. and died in Paris on the 16th of
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June 1866 .

The CEuvres of Barthelemy and Mery were collected, with a

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notice by L . Reybaud, in 1831 (4 vols.) . See also Barthelemy et Mery etudies specialement clans leurs rapports avec la legende napoleonienne, by Jules Garsou in vol. lviii. of the Memoires of the Academie Royale . . . de Belgique, which contains full information on both authors .

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