AUGUSTE MARSEILLE See also:BARTHELEMY (1796–1867)
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His name can hardly be separated from that of his friend and compatriot, J
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Mery (1798–1866), with whom he carried on so intimate a collaboration that it is not possible to distinguish their personalities in their See also:joint See also:works
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After having established some See also:local reputation as a poet, See also:Barthelemy went to See also:Paris, where by one of his first efforts, Le Sacre de See also:Charles X (1825) he gained the favour of the See also:court
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His energies, however, were soon enlisted in the service of the opposition party
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In 1825 appeared a See also:clever See also:political See also:satire, See also: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
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The success was immediate and pronounced; fifteen See also:editions of the Villeliade were called for during the See also:year
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A rapid See also:succession of political squibs and satires was now poured forth by the authors, among the most remarkable being Biographic See also:des quarante de 1'academie francaise (1826) and See also:Napoleon en Egypte (1828), which passed through nearly a dozen editions in a year
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In 1829 Barthelemy was imprisoned and fined See also:I000 francs for the publication of their Fils de l'homme, a poem on the See also:duke of See also:Reichstadt, Napoleon's son
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The Revolution of 1830 liberated him; and in See also:company with Mery, he celebrated the See also:triumph of the See also:people in one of their most brilliant efforts, L'Insurrection
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From See also:March 1831 to See also:April 1832 they produced a See also:series of See also:verse satires issued weekly, the See also:Nemesis, attacking the See also:government and ministers of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis Philippe
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The small See also:pension of which Barthelemy was the recipient was stopped
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When the publication ceased there was a strong suspicion that Barthelemy had been paid for his silence
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. In 1832 he published an See also:anonymous poem, supporting some acts of the government which were peculiarly See also:obnoxious to the Liberal party
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This See also:change of front destroyed his See also:influence and his later writings passed unnoticed
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For the next few years he enjoyed a handsome pension from the government and refrained from all satirical See also:writing
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He again resumed his old See also:style in 1844 but without the former success
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From that date he contented himself with merely occasional poems
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Barthelemy died on the 23rd of See also:August 1867 at See also:Marseilles
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See also:Joseph Mery was an ardent romanticist and wrote a See also:great number of stories now forgotten
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He produced several pieces at the Paris theatres, and also collaborated with See also:Gerard de See also:Nerval in adapta-. tions from See also:Shakespeare and in other plays
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He received a pension from Napoleon III. and died in Paris on the 16th of See also:June 1866
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The CEuvres of Barthelemy and Mery were collected, with a See also:notice by L
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See also:Reybaud, in 1831 (4 vols.)
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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
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. . de Belgique, which contains full See also:information on both authors
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