Paul-Louis Courier. "Si l'affranchissement complet du joug des conventions d'une époque peut être regardé comme le principal caractère du talent, Paul -Louis Courier a été l'Eecrivain distingué de ce temps". Armand Carrel résume ainsi la carrière du pamphlétaire assassiné le 10 avril 1825, d'un coup de fusil dont la bourre était constituée de l'un de ses propres journaux. Déjà critique sous l'Empire, ("Etre Bonaparte et se faire sire... Il aspire à descendre!") ce libéral anticlérical, indigné des abus de la Restauration, n'est toutefois pas victime des "cagots", selon sa prophétie, mais de son garde-chasse. Né à Paris le 4 janvier 1772, Courier est devenu officier d'artillerie pour répondre au désir de son père, mais sa passion le porte depuis l'enfance vers la philologie: à quinze ans, il suit les cours de Vauvilliers au Collège royal, entre deux campagnes il traduit Longus ou Xénophor, et se soigne en lisant Hérodote. A 42 ans, il épouse Herminie Clavier, fille d'un autre helléniste de ses amis, membre de l'Institut, dont il brigue en vain la succession. Après cet échec, le peintre misanthrope des moeurs politiques de son temps se retire sur ses terres et publie en 1824 son chant du cygne, le "Pamphlet des pamphlets."

English translation: "Paul-Louis Courier. “While the complete postage of the yoke of conventions of a time can be seen as the main character of talent, Paul-Louis Courier was the distinguished Ewriter of that time.” Armand Carrel thus sums up the career of the pamphlet murdered on 10 April 1825, with a shotgun shot whose burr was made up of one of his own newspapers. Already critic under the Empire, (“Being Bonaparte and getting sighted... He aspires to go down!”) this anti-clerical liberal, indignant of the abuses of the Restoration, is, however, not the victim of the “cagots”, according to his prophecy, but of his hunting guard. Born in Paris on 4 Jan. 1772, Courier became an artillery officer in response to his father's desire, but his passion brought him from childhood to philology: at the age of fifteen he took Vauvilliers courses at the Royal College, between two campaigns he translated Longus or Xénophor, and treated himself by reading Herodote. At the age of 42, he married Herminie Clavier, daughter of another Hellenist of his friends, a member of the Institute, whose succession he was unsuccessful. After this failure, the misanthropist painter of the political mores of his time retired to his land and published in 1824 his swan song, the “Pamphlet of Pamphlets.” [AWS Translate]"

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