The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07.
Barthélemy, Auguste Marseille
(güst´ märs´y bärtlm´) (KEY) , 1796–1867, French poet. With his friend Joseph Méry he wrote several brilliant and popular political satires, including La Villéliade (1827), Napoléon en Égypte (1828), and Le Fils de l’homme (1829), a poem on Napoleon II, for which Barthélemy was briefly imprisoned. A political chameleon, he celebrated the Revolution of 1830 in L’Insurrection, only to attack the July Monarchy in his short-lived (1831–32) journal Némésis.
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´) (KEY) , 1796–1867, French poet. With his friend Joseph Méry he wrote several brilliant and popular political satires, including La Villéliade (1827), Napoléon en Égypte (1828), and Le Fils de l’homme (1829), a poem on Napoleon II, for which Barthélemy was briefly imprisoned. A political chameleon, he celebrated the Revolution of 1830 in L’Insurrection, only to attack the July Monarchy in his short-lived (1831–32) journal Némésis.
