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134. PROMENADE DANS LES ROCHERS. From les Quatre Vents de l'esprit; not dated.
AUGUSTE BRIZEUX.
1803-1858.
He is remembered for his simple and touching poems, full of the landscape and of the rural life of his native Brittany. He also translated Dante's Divine Comedy.
Works: Marie_, 1835; _les Ternaires, 1841 (the title of this collection was later changed to la Fleur d'or); les Bretons, 1845; _Histoires poétiques_, 1855; _Oeuvres complètes_, 1861, 2 vols.; Oeuvres, 4 vols., 1879-84.
For reference: Sainte-Beuve, Portraits contemporains, vols, ii and iii; Lecigne, Brizeux, sa vie et ses oeuvres, Lille, 1898.
AUGUSTE BARBIER.
1805-1880.
He secured immediate fame by the vigorous satire of his first work, Iambes, and he is probably still best remembered for this, though later volumes, especially Il Pianto, contain work of more perfect finish.
Works: Iambes_, 1831; La Popularité_, 1831; Lazare_, 1833; Il Pianto_, 1833 (these are now included in one volume, _Iambes et poèmes_); Nouvelles Satires, 1837; Chants civils et religieux, 1841; _Rimes héroïques_, 1843; Sylves, 1865.
For reference: Sainte-Beuve, Portraits contemporains, vol. ii.
138. L'IDOLE. May, 1831. The whole poem consists of five parts.
2. MESSIDOR, one of the months of the revolutionary calender, beginning with the nineteenth of June. It was the first of the summer months.
MADAME D'AGOULT.
1806-1876.
Marie-Sophie Catherine de Flavigny, comtesse d'Agoult, wrote under the pseudonym Daniel Stern. Her work is mainly in prose, in history, criticism and fiction, but she wrote a few lyrics marked by deep and true sentiment. A biographical notice by L. de Ronchand will be found in the second edition of her Esquisses mo