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See also:BARTHELEMY, AUGUSTE MARSEILLE (1796–1867) , See also:French satirical poet, was See also: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 See also:joint See also:works. After having established some See also:local reputation as a poet, 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. His energies, however, were soon enlisted in the service of the opposition party. 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. The success was immediate and pronounced; fifteen See also:editions of the Villeliade were called for during the See also:year. 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. 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. 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.
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. The small See also: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 See also:anonymous poem, supporting some acts of the government which were peculiarly See also:obnoxious to the Liberal party. This See also:change of front destroyed his See also: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 See also:writing. He again resumed his old See also:style in 1844 but without the former success. From that date he contented himself with merely occasional poems. Barthelemy died on the 23rd of See also:August 1867 at See also:Marseilles. See also:Joseph Mery was an ardent romanticist and wrote a See also:great number of stories now forgotten. 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. He received a pension from Napoleon III. and died in Paris on the 16th of See also:June 1866.
The CEuvres of Barthelemy and Mery were collected, with a See also:notice by L. See also: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 See also:information on both authors.
End of Article: BARTHELEMY, AUGUSTE MARSEILLE (1796–1867)
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