See also:

• PIERRE

PIERRE See also:

• PIERRE DUPONT (1821-1870)

DUPONT (1821-1870)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• SONG

song-writer, the son of a blacksmith, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• LYONS
• LYONS (Fr. Lyon)
• LYONS, COUNCILS OF
• LYONS, EDMUND LYONS, BARON (1790-1858)
• LYONS, RICHARD BICKERTON PEMELL LYONS, 1ST EARL (1817–1887)

Lyons on the 23rd of See also:

• APRIL

April 1821 . His parents both died before he was five years old, and he was brought up in the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country by his godfather, a See also:

• VILLAGE

village See also:

• PRIEST (Ger. Priester, Fr. pretre)

priest . He was educated at the See also:

• SEMINARY (Lat. seminarium, from semen, seed)

seminary of L'Argentiere, and was afterwards apprenticed to a See also:

• NOTARY, or NOTARY PUBLIC

notary at Lyons . In 1839 he found his way to See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, and some of his poems were inserted, in the See also:

• GAZETTE

Gazette de See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France and the Quotidienne . Two years later he was saved from the See also:

• CONSCRIPTION (from Lat. con-, together, and scribere, to write)

conscription and enabled to publish his first See also:

• VOLUME

volume—See also:

• LES

Les Deux Anges—through the exertions of a kinsman and of See also:

• PIERRE

Pierre See also:

• LEBRUN, CHARLES FRANCCOIS
• LEBRUN, PIERRE ANTOINE (1785–1873)
• LEBRUN, PONCE DENIS ECOUCHARD (1729-1807)

Lebrun . In 1842 he received a See also:

• PRIZE, or PRIZE OF WAR (Fr. prise, from prendre, to take)

prize from the See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy, and worked for some See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time on the See also:

• OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official See also:

• DICTIONARY

dictionary . See also:

• GOUNOD, CHARLES FRANCOIS (1818--1893)

Gounod's appreciation of his See also:

• PEASANT (O. Fr. paysant, Mod. paysan; Lat. pagensis, belonging to the pagus or country; cf. " pagan ")

peasant song, J'ai deux grands bceufs clans mon etable (1846), settled his vocation as a song-writer . He had no theoretical knowledge of See also:

• MUSIC

music, but he composed both the words and the melodies of his songs, the two processes being generally simultaneous . He himself remained so See also:

• INNOCENT (INNOCENTIUS)
• INNOCENT (POPES)

innocent of musical know-ledge that he had to engage Ernest See also:

• REYER, ERNEST (1823- )

Reyer to write down his airs . He sang his own songs, as they were composed, at the workmen's concerts in the Salle de la Fraternite du See also:

• FAUBOURG

Faubourg See also:

• SAINT (lat. sanctus, " holy ")

Saint-See also:

• DENIS (DIoNysms), SAINT
• DENIS, JOHANN NEPOMUK COSMAS MICHAEL (1729-1800)

Denis; the public performance of his famous Le See also:

• PAIN (from Lat. poena, Gr. robin, penalty, that which must be paid: O. Fr. peine)
• PAIN, BARRY (1867– )

Pain was forbidden; Le See also:

• CHANT (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. cantare, to sing; an old form is " chaunt ")

Chant See also:

• DES

des ouvriers was even more popular; and in 1851 he paid the See also:

• PENALTY (Lat. poena, punishment)

penalty of having become the poet See also:

• LAUREATE (Lat. laureatus, from laurea, the laurel tree)

laureate of the socialistic aspirations of the time by being comdemned to seven years of See also:

• EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)

exile from France . The See also:

• SENTENCE (Lat. sententia, a way of thinking, opinion, judgment; vote, sentire, to feel, think)

sentence was cancelled, and the poet withdrew for a time from participation in politics . He died at Lyons, where his later years were spent, on the 24th of See also:

• JULY

July 1870 .

His songs have appeared in various forms—Chants et chansons (3 vols., with music, 1852-1854), Chants et poesies (7th edition, 1862), &c . Among the best-known are Le Braconnier, Le See also:

• TISSERAND, FRANCOIS FELIX (1845-1896)

Tisserand, La Vache See also:

• BLANCHE, JACQUES EMILE (1861– )

blanche, La Chanson du ble, but many others might be mentioned of equal spontaneity and See also:

• CHARM (through the Fr. from the Lat. carmen, a song)

charm . His later See also:

• WORKS

works have not the same merit . See also Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi, iv.; Ch . See also:

• BAUDELAIRE, CHARLES PIERRE (1821-1867)

Baudelaire, See also:

• NOTICE

Notice sur P . See also:

• DUPONT, PIERRE (1821-1870)

Dupont (1849) ; Dechaut, Biographie de Pierre Dupont (1871); and Ch . Lenient, Poesie patriotique en France (1889), ii . 352 et seq .