WorkPierre-Jean de Béranger

“Le Cinq Mai," in Chansons”

Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780–1857)

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Documented 1839

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  • 1839ChansonsAttested

    “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.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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Notes on Balzac, George Sand, De Vigny, and Béranger

p50–p51
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“There are fine lines in his Cinq' Mai', the sentiment is as grand as Manzoni's, though not sustained by the same majestic sweep of diction.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notes on Balzac, George Sand, De Vigny, and Béranger." Houghton Library, Harvard University.