Auguste-Marseille Barthélemy

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

Barthelemy completed his schooling at the Collège de Juilly in Juilly, Dépt. Seine- et- Marne, which was maintained by the Society of Jesus. With 26 years Barthelemy went along with his friend Joseph Méry to Paris.

There Berthélemy successfully debut as a writer and together with Méry he published many satires against the Bourbons. As a partisan of Napoleon, these pamphlets directed mostly against Louis XVIII. and its successor, Charles X.. Their biting sarcasm, by the vibrancy and lightness of their verses, these soon gained a large readership.

But Barethélemys admiration for Napoleon was also reflected in other works. In 1828 he published his historical epic Napoléon en Égypte, in which he paid homage constituted the Egyptian expedition. Barthélemy traveled in the summer of 1828 to the court of Vienna to work around this personally to Napoleon Bonaparte Franz, Duke of imperial city present. Because it but this was denied, he took his revenge the following year with his poem " Le fils de l' homme, ou souvenirs de Vienne ". The publication earned him a sentence of three months' imprisonment for a lese-majeste.

Even after the July Revolution of 1830, during the Second Restoration sat Barthelemy his literary attacks on the government away, most often in collaboration with his friend Méry. When he was appointed in 1831 as librarian to Marseille, founded Barthelemy Némésis, a weekly satirical magazine. One of his most important works from this period (1832 ) is the " eulogy " Douze Journées de la Révolution (1832 ), in the twelve important days of the first revolution to be celebrated,

Since Barthelemy attacks on monarchy and government in the July Monarchy increasingly violent and uncontrolled, were excited at the citizen-king Louis Philippe, suspend him a small pension. This was connected with the obligation to publish anything more political and retire into private life. The plan worked and when the public found out about it, its popularity declined. The accusation that he had let buy, Barthelemy tried in vain with the poem " Ma justification" to meet.

In the following years Barthelemy seemed even as a translator; inter alia, by Girolamo Fracastoro and Virgil. When he again wanted rüssieren with satires later, a renewed success eluded him. In the last years of his life Barthélemy published nothing more. He retired from public life and died with more than 70 years on 23 August 1867 in his hometown.

Works (selection)

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

• Napoléon en Égypte. 1828th
• Le fils de l' homme, ou souvenirs de Vienne., 1829.
• L' Insurrection. , 1830.
• La Dupinade, ou la révolution Dupee. 1831st
• Douze Journées de la révolution. In 1832.

• Virgil: Aeneid.
• Girolamo Fracastoro: Syphilis or the Gallic disease
• Girolamo Fracastoro: La Bouillotte.