The poet P.J. Béranger at the age of twenty sits on the bed in his garret while his girfriend Lisette covers the window with a shawl in the lack of a curtain. Engraving by C.L.V. Mauduit, 1847, after H. Pauquet.

  • Pauquet, Hippolyte Louis Emile, 1797-
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1847
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35813i
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The garret in which Béranger lived at the age of twenty on the sixth floor of a building on the Boulevard Saint-Martin in Paris, and recalled in his poem 'Le grenier', in which he imagines himself revisiting the room much later: "Lisette ici doit surtout apparaître, / Vive, jolie, avec un frais chapeau : / Déjà sa main à l'étroite fenêtre / Suspend son schall en guise de rideau." Lisette's hat, mentioned in the poem, rests on the bed. Around the central scene are vignettes of Béranger and Lisette looking out over Paris from the open mansard window, and the older Béranger revisiting the building. Upper right: a group of friends celebrating Napoleon's victory at Marengo (14 June 1800)

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[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] (Paris : Imp. F. Charden)

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1 print : engraving ; image 18 x 13 cm

Lettering

Le grenier. Panquet del. Mauduit sc.

References note

Lois Cassandra Hamrick, 'Artists poets and urban space in nineteenth-century Paris', French literature in/and the city, 1997, 24: 53-82

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Wellcome Collection 35813i

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