WorkPierre-Jean de Béranger

La Liberté' or a related poem from Chansons de Béranger

La Liberté' or a related poem from Chansons de Béranger (1821–1828)] Inferred

Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780–1857) · 1821–1828

InferredFuller names Béranger (Pierre-Jean de Béranger, 1780–1857), the enormously popular French chansonnière and poet, and 'the poem addressed to her [the Goddess of Liberty] not long since.' Béranger wrote several poems on Liberty as a goddess figure;

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Documented 1845

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“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.

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✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Woman in the Nineteenth Century

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“As we read the poem addressed to her not long since, by Beranger, we can scarcely refrain from tears as painful as the tears of blood that flowed when "such crimes were committed in her name.”

Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.

Inferred Fuller names Béranger (Pierre-Jean de Béranger, 1780–1857), the enormously popular French chansonnière and poet, and 'the poem addressed to her [the Goddess of Liberty] not long since.' Béranger wrote several poems on Liberty as a goddess figure;