{"id":2997,"date":"2016-09-10T11:56:06","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T15:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/?p=2997"},"modified":"2016-12-31T12:26:17","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T17:26:17","slug":"the-bee-the-literary-chronicle-and-weekly-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/?p=2997","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Bee&#8221; (<i>The Literary Chronicle and Weekly Review<\/i>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"aei-root\" lang=\"en-GB\"><!-- suid=259 --><\/p>\n<dl id=\"aei-dl-meta\">\n<dt>Performer Name:<\/dt>\n<dd>Pradel<\/dd>\n<dt>Performance Venue:<\/dt>\n<dd>Paris<\/dd>\n<dt>Performance Date:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\">&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Author:<\/dt>\n<dd>&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Date Written:<\/dt>\n<dd>1822<\/dd>\n<dt>Language:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\"> English<\/dd>\n<dt>Publication Title:<\/dt>\n<dd>The Literary Chronicle and Weekly Review<\/dd>\n<dt>Article Title:<\/dt>\n<dd>The Bee<\/dd>\n<dt>Page Numbers:<\/dt>\n<dd>160:367<\/dd>\n<dt>Additional Info:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\">8 June 1822 issue<\/dd>\n<dt>Publisher:<\/dt>\n<dd>&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Place of Publication:<\/dt>\n<dd>London <\/dd>\n<dt>Date Published:<\/dt>\n<dd>1822<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p class=\"aei-one-line-down\"><strong>Text:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote id=\"aei-blockquote\">\n<p>The French papers give an account of the trial in Paris of Eugene de Pradel, a man of letters, who had served in the army, and who was the author of a small brochure, entitled <i>Les Etincelles<\/i>, containing five songs, which were prosecuted as libellous, and affecting the king&#8217;s authority, the succession to the throne, and offensive to religion and good manners. After the pleadings had been gone through, and before the Tribunal of Correctional Police retired to deliberate on their verdict, M. de Pradel begged to add a few words to the defence made for him by his counsel, B. Berville, when he delivered the following verses, which possess much elegance and shew his facility of composition:&mdash;<\/p>\n<pre class=\"aei-poetry1\">\r\n          Ma muse vivait inconnue:\r\nArmer contre ses chants votre s\u00e9v\u00e9rit\u00e9, \r\nC'est donner \u00e0 son nom une c\u00e9l\u00e9brit\u00e9\r\n          Qu'elle n'aurait point obtenue. \r\nSous les verroux, o\u00f9 l'on a peu d'amis,\r\n     Un soulagement \u00e0 ses peines\r\n     Sera-t-il vainement promis?\r\n     Devra-t-elle accuser Th\u00e9mis\r\n     D'avoir voulu river ses cha\u00eenes?\r\n     Soldat, j'ai suivi nos h\u00e9ros;\r\n     Prisonnier, j'ai chant\u00e9 la France:\r\nEn la chantant, j'oubliais tous mes maux; \r\n     Ses lauriers cachaient mes barreaux; \r\n     Sa gloire charmait ma souffrance. \r\n     Si je suis coupable d'erreur,\r\n     Mes torts sont bien involontaires:\r\n     Toutes les vertus me sont ch\u00e8res;\r\n     Elles se plaisent dans mon coeur; \r\n     Je vois tous les hommes en fr\u00e8res;\r\n     Opprim\u00e9, je plains l'oppresseur; \r\nPauvre et captif, je chante mon malheur,\r\n     Et les m\u00e9chans ne chantent gu\u00e8res. \r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Respect for the court did not prevent his being loudly cheered by the auditors, who could with difficulty be prevented from expressing their admiration of the poetical delinquent thus pleading his cause. The judges could not, however, be moved, and condemned M. de Pradel to be imprisoned six months, and to pay a fine of 1000 francs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"aei-one-line-down\"><strong>Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"aei-blocktext\">\n    <\/div>\n<dl id=\"aei-dl-meta-unimportant\">\n<dt>Collected by:<\/dt>\n<dd>EW<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A literary magazine reports that Pradel, on trial for publishing a politically controversial brochure of poems, insisted on delivering an improvised poem as part of his defence. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,134],"tags":[50,104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2997"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3009,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997\/revisions\/3009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}