WorkPierre-Jean de Béranger

“Les Mirmidons," in Chansons”

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Documented 1839

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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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IV. Transcendentalist1record

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Notes on Balzac, George Sand, De Vigny, and Béranger

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“Thus, in Les Mirmidons, the refrain Mirmidons, race feconde, / Mirmidons, / Enfin nous commandons: / Jupiter livre le monde, / Aux mirmidons, aux mirmidons, (bis)”

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