Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy

Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy (* 1796 in Marseille ; † 23 August 1867 there ) was a French poet .

Barthélemy completed his school days at the Collège de Juilly in Juilly , Département Seine-et-Marne . At the age of 26, Barthélemy went to Paris with his friend Joseph Méry .

There Berthélemy was able to debut successfully as a writer and together with Méry he published many satires against the Bourbons . As part of Napoleon's partisan , these pamphlets were mostly directed against Louis XVIII. and his successor Charles X. Because of their biting mockery, the liveliness and lightness of their verses, they soon gained a large readership.

Barethélemy's admiration for Napoleon was also reflected in other works. In 1828 he published his historical epic Napoléon en Égypte , in which he paid homage to his Egyptian expedition . Barthélemy traveled to the court in Vienna in the summer of 1828 in order to personally present this work to Napoleon Franz Bonaparte , Duke of Reichstadt. Since he was denied this, however, he retaliated the following year with his poem "Le fils de l'homme, ou souvenirs de Vienne". The publication earned him a three-month prison sentence for lese majesty.

Even after the July Revolution of 1830 , during the Second Restoration , Barthélemy continued his literary attacks on the government, mostly in collaboration with his friend Méry. When he was called to Marseille as a librarian in 1831, Barthélemy founded Némésis , a weekly satirical magazine. One of his most important works from this period (1832) is the "Eloge" Douze journées de la Révolution (1832), in which twelve important days of the first revolution are celebrated.

Since Barthélemy's attacks on the monarchy and the state became more and more violent and uncontrolled in the July monarchy , the citizen king Louis Philippe suggested giving him a small pension. This was connected with the condition not to publish anything more political and to withdraw into private life. The plan worked, and when the public found out, its popularity declined. Barthélemy tried in vain to counter the accusation that he had let himself be bought with the poem “Ma justification”.

In the following years Barthélemy worked as a translator; u. a. by Girolamo Fracastoro and Virgil . When he later wanted to succeed again with satires, another success was denied him. In the last years of his life, Barthélemy did not publish anything. He withdrew from public life and died in his hometown on August 23, 1867 at the age of 70.

Works (selection)

Satires

La Villéliade . 1826.
Les Jésuites . 1826.
Rome à Paris . 1826.
La Corbiéréide . 1827.
La Peyronéide . 1827.
La nouvelle némésis . 1844/45.
Le Zodiaque . 1846.
Bomdardement d'Odessa . 1854.
L'exposure . 1855.
La Tauride . 1856.

Elogenies and pamphlets

Napoléon en Egypt . 1828.
Le fils de l'homme, ou souvenirs de Vienne . 1829.
L'Insurrection . 1830.
La Dupinade, ou la révolution dupée . 1831.
Douze journées de la revolution . 1832.

Translations

Virgil: Envy .
Girolamo Fracastoro: Syphilis or the Gallic Disease
Girolamo Fracastoro: La Bouillotte .

Web links

Literature by and about Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy in the catalog of the German National Library

personal data
SURNAME	Barthélemy, Auguste-Marseille
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French poet
DATE OF BIRTH	1796
PLACE OF BIRTH	Marseille
DATE OF DEATH	August 23, 1867
Place of death	Marseille