Béranger
Americannoun
noun
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After the Restoration, Béranger, whose political creed was an odd compound of Bonapartism and Republicanism, got into trouble with the government for his political songs.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
They found themselves near neighbors of Béranger, and frequently saw him promenading the avenue in a white hat, and they learned that he lived very quietly and “kept out of scrapes, poetical and political.”
From The Brownings Their Life and Art by Lilian Whiting
De Béranger has wrought brilliant things—pungent and spirit-stirring—but, like all impassive bodies, they lack momentum, and thus fail to satisfy the poetic sentiment.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index by Henry Cabot Lodge
On his arrival at Rome, Lucien Bonaparte transmitted to Béranger the salary coming to him as a member of the Institute.
From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Edwin Emerson
Béranger was its poet and Courier was its political writer.
From God and the State by Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin
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