Friday 26 June 2015

1815...

Even I can't escape the 1815 fever at this moment. Though being a citydwelling lady, I will not bore you with a description of a bloody battle, severed limbs and cruelly dying horses, I present you my YouTube trouvaille of today: a piercingly mocking song about the Allied Occupation, written by Pierre-Jean de Béranger



You can find here a selection of de Bérengers poems translated into English in 1850; the one above sadly not among them, yet it offers a very nice insight into the popular poetry at the time, often with a short explanatory introduction to the political situation on what the piece is aimed.
https://ia600800.us.archive.org/21/items/aep9907.0001.001.umich.edu/aep9907.0001.001.umich.edu.pdf

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