WorkPierre-Jean de Béranger
Chansons (various collections, 1815–1833)
Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780–1857) · collected volumes, 1815–1833
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Documented 1839
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
Manuscripts
Selected engagements, in chronological order.
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had this work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“I have lately been reading some of Beranger's Chansons.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · Sept 1839_
MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re557 (Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections), Mem-2-05, line 11093; tier A; same passage) — counted once here. 'I have lately been reading some of Beranger's Chansons' is an explicit, dated first-person reading statement.
“I have lately been reading some of Beranger's Chansons. The hour was not propitious.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notes on Balzac, George Sand, De Vigny, and Béranger." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
“I have lately been reading some of Beranger's chansons... yet I am not quite insensible to their wit, high sentiment, and spontaneous grace.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.
Inferred Margaret Fuller engaged with Pierre-Jean de Béranger's Chansons, noting that she found herself "not quite insensible to their wit, high sentiment, and spontaneous grace." While Fuller does not name a specific collection, her references to songs such as "Les Mirmidons" and "La Déesse de la Liberté" allow for the inference of her reading from Béranger's prolific output of popular poetry across several decades.