“clever in the craft, and a conscientious worker to whom old airs and a modest choice of subjects (le coin que me suis confine) have brought some success.”
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Pierre-Jean de Béranger
Pierre-Jean de Béranger was a prolific French poet and chansonnier (songwriter), who enjoyed great popularity and influence in France during his lifetime, but faded into obscurity in the decades following his death. He has been described as "the most popular French songwriter of all time" and "the first superstar of French popular music".
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culture · French poet and chansonnier (1780–1857) · chansonnier · politician · poet · composer · writer · musicographer · also Pierre-Jean de Béranger, Pierre-Jean de Beranger, Pierre Jean de Béranger, Béranger
Born 19 August 1780 · Died 16 July 1857 · Q324998
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2023· 1 entry
MutualArt.com: Pierre-Jean de Béranger
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2008· 1 entry
Released album “Le Pape musulman & autres chansons”.
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1868· 1 entry
Monsieur Lecoq finds that a prisoner is communicating with his confederate using a cipher based on Béranger's poetry
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1857· 1 entry
Died 1857-07-16.
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1848· 1 entry
Career landmark: Member of parliament for the Seine (1848–1848).
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1836· 1 entry
Oeuvres complètes de Béranger, illustrated with 100 wood engravings by the French illustrator J
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1832· 1 entry
Because they adopted the slogan of "Art for art," and set no object of public usefulness before them as they wrote
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1828· 1 entry
Was severely dealt with, the author being fined 1,100 francs and sentenced to nine months in La Force Prison
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1821· 1 entry
By which time he had resigned from his regular employment
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1815· 1 entry
And though it contained few political pieces, it aroused the suspicion of the department in which he worked due to its popularity; he was advised by his chief not to publish any similar material in the future
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1814· 1 entry
And, finally, the defeat at Waterloo in 1815, had a deep effect on Béranger, and gave a new stimulus and direction to his poetic output
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1812· 1 entry
While keeping a sick friend company, that it occurred to him to write down the best of them
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1809· 1 entry
Through the same patronage, but indirectly, he became a despatch clerk at the Imperial University of France, at a salary of an additional thousand francs
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1780· 1 entry
Born 1780-08-19.
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