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From Carmina Macaronica, Vindictae Adversus Julium Simonem Carmina Latina
Prohibentem, Epistolium Ad Radicales, Francportus Hecatombe, by A. Tristellati;
Brest : Imprimerie Roger Pre, rue Saint-Yves; 1873 ; pp. 7-19.

A. TRISTELLATI
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Carmina Macaronica

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Vindictae
Adversus Julium Simonem
Carmina Latina Prohibentem

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Epistolium Ad Radicales
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Francportus Hecatombe

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Si sermone opus est mod tristi, spe jacoso
HOR., Ars Pot.
BREST
Imprimerie ROGER PRE, rue Saint-Yves, 32

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1873
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In the Introduction to Macaroneana
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, Mr. Octave Delepierre, of the
Society of Antiquaries of London, expresses himself in this way : In
spite of the attacks directed against Macaroni poetry, in the name of
good taste, men of high intelligence, and who occupy a lofty place in
history, amuse themselves with it. They have even gone so far as to to
show the greatest enthusiasm for this type of literature. He then
names Cardinal Mazarin, L. B. Alberti, Lorenzo de Mdici, Bishop
Gibson, Naud, Genthe, Flgel, etc., and, among the curious and
wealthy collectors of macaronic poetry, Charles Nodier, Peignot, and
Mr. Sylvain Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister Plenipotentiary to
London.
Mr. Delepierre distinguishes the macaronic style first, from the
hybrid language, that is to say, the mixture of words of several
languages; secondly from the pedantic style, in which the Latin word is
subjected to the forms of the language spoken today. The macaronic
poetry, on the other hand, he says, fixes the modern word to Latin
phraseology and syntax.
The French Academy, in its last dictionary, has adopted the following
definition : Burlesque Poetry, where many modern words are
introduced, to which are given a Latin ending.
The rules of Latin prosody are generally adopted in macaronic poetry.
Sometimes, however, they are expressed in rhymed prose, as in the
following lines :
Ego macaronicum,
Hybridum, pedantiscum
Auctoris ad libitum
Credo posse melari,
Bonum latinum aussi;
Dm fiat agrementum,
Et sal inusitatum
Foisonet rog bonum
Per oppelum badinum,
In modum phantasticum
Barbaturi barbari.
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Naud called the macaronic style the funniest comic writing
imaginable. (Macaroneana, page 67.)
Henry Hallam (History of the Middle Ages), and Baron (History of
French Literature), Sainte-Beuve (A Historical and Critical Description
of French Poetry to the 16
th
Century), have remarked that the
macaronic poetry favored reform, ridiculed the words of the Church,
and served as an instrument of religious opposition. If this claim
were true, it would not be worth our praise; but these one-sided
observations seem prejudiced to me. The truth is that the macaronic
poems and its orators are met with on both sides, and that their fiery
and mocking language must have escalated the controversy.
Furthermore, the best models of the type are total strangers to the
quarrels of religion. Arena, J. Germain, Cec. Frey, Geddes, W. King,
John Grubb, the anonymous authors of Michel Morin, of the Vux de
nouvel an, of Polkamania (an Englishman),* of the Eulogy to Cheese (a
German), Mr. Baron himself, in the Eulogy to a Pig, etc., treated quite
different subjects with grace and with success, free from satire and
mockery, and simply created amusing pieces, or literary fantasies
seasoned with very innocent jesting.
Here is the list of the macaronic authors cited in the Macaroneana :
ITALIANS. Bassano, Tifi Odassi, G. G. Allione, Teofilo
Folengo, Guarini Capella, Egidio Berzetti, Bartholome
Bolla, Bernardino Stefonio, Andrea Baano, Cesare Orsini
(Stopinus), Ant. Affarosi, Gab. Barletta, Part.
Zanclao, Giac. Ricci, J. B. Graseri, Meno Beguoso.
FRENCHMEN. Ant. dArena, J. Germain, Remy
Belleau, Et. Tabourot, J. Ed. de Monin, J. Ccile Frey, Mich.
Menot, Thod. de.Bze, Colleton
Caron, Rabelais, Molire, L. Bern. Roger, Et. du
Tronchet, Plutarque drlatique, Anonymous Authors.
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GERMANS and DUTCHMEN. Several Anonymous Authors.
BELGIANS. M. Baron.
ENGLISHMEN. W. Drummond of Hawthorden, Th.
Coryate, George Ruggle, Edward Benlowes, Will.
King, Another Will. King, John Grubb, Alexand.
Geddes, Flix Farley, Tom Dishington.
PORTUGUESE. Several Authors.
SPANIARDS. Garci Sanchez.
It goes without saying that Mr. Delepierre, although well-versed in the
special bibliography of Macaroni Poetry, had to omit a few. We point
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out to him, for example, the ones by Lela, a judge at Landernau at the
end of the last century, and the Spinacia, Paris, Simon Dautreville,
1850. It no longer appears that the author of the Macaroneana
researched the works kept in manuscripts, which public or private
libraries can conceal. A number of adolescents certainly composed
some of them. I could name the rector of a little parish, an old principal
of a college in Lower Brittany, who being a schoolboy, thus began a
poem on the fair of . . . . . . which was held every Tuesday:
Ecce dies Martis; eniunt grands bragues in urbem,
Sabbotibus que suis faciunt tremblare pavetum. . . .


FOOTNOTES



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Brighton and Paris, 1852, a volume in-8
o
.

2
M. Delepierre mentions, page 177, a work entitled : A
Macaronic Poem in the form of a declaration of war to all the bad
paymasters [creditors?], etc. Paris, 1783, in-8
o
. He declares that
he has not been able to procure any information on this work,
either in England, or Belgium, or in France. The aforementioned
poem is by a Sir Marguer, whose name I found in the Bulletin du
Bouquiniste; and it was sent to me, at my first request, from the
National Library. This is not macaronic poetry at all. It is entirely
in French burlesque verse, often rather dull. I read over it and
found nothing of interest there.


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VINDICT
MUS MACARONIC
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Adverss Jul. SIMONEM
CARMINA LATINA LYCORUM ALUMNUS PROHIBENTEM


AD DOCTUM ET ELEGANTEM VIRUM
Darium ROSSI
Humaniorum artium disciplin addictum, disertas de isto jussu ducentem
querimonias
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I.
Gaillardus semper cantansqne, ut pinsonus, esto.
(Herm. rom.)
Non luge, Rossi; latias non rit Camnas
Plaignato, quas frigidulis pulsare lycis,
Jussu inconsulto carillonnque tabell
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Tentavit Simon; dadafourchans ille minister
Se attaccat frustr, fortun inflatus, Olympo;
Despuit in ventum, quod ventus semper abhorret
Et punit, ad nasum turpes reddendo bavillas.
Clicol, ut nostros aleant foveantque pueros,
Vel minimo claustri noscent penetrare meatu,
Purpureas alas saltem monstrare fenestris
Quas ego... sed clictus nunc vitro sufficit ictus.
Nec moror; en psallam joculans tambourine basco.
Farces quas Helicon hoc casu vidit. et ultra,
Per triste id tempus, Momo ducente, videbit.


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Simonis magni cm littera jacta per auras
Montibus archcocax advenit, fort talones
Gallis tornabat capricando Pegasus unglo;
Ad caudam idcirc se apposuit, aspera fata,
Sed merita, et memet subit perfecta malign :
Appellans Michal-Morinum, famulantulum Olympi,
Huic jubeo lettram sub equin stringere caud,
Ut balli-ball cujus sint causa riandi,
Ritu librantis, dans currente, crocot.
Ad rem patrandam, garteras prbeo bellas
E nugis Pindi in mea chtas sacca-malic.
Erant tniol fugientis justa Thrasonis
Carcera Pieridum, sottis inflicta paressis,
Queisque puer, crines religans, Phbea blagrat,
Ut quondam Arcadicus Philomelam irrisit asellus
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Et Mornius prest : Jussum persolvitur (inquit);
Mireris jolium quod gessi, Musula, nexum!
Est arctus, rectus, doublatus, clave marin,
Et gallans, habili troussatis arte rosettis!
Hanneto! subvolita; grandmaister Simo scholarum,
Si ben non volitas, gorjam tibi, fichtre! secabit;
Vallibus Elysiis Simonis pande cheduvram;
Hanneto! subvolita; te spectant scula vingti!
Sic fatur Michal, dorsum flattando cavalli
Assuetis manibus dauratam ferre provendam;
Istius at drl sequitur pulchramen afair.
Nescio quid doluit, trepidat cit Pegasus ales.
Et petulans, prouh! prouh! pettarada maxima miscet
Crottibus horridulis, chartque sub therea puls.
Charta quid adverss potuisset verbera caud?
In lapsu tournans, flicflacsona quelcuna claccat,
Et lourd tombat, scripto lourdata balourdo,
Ut ruit ex clo plumbis mactata becassa.
Momus hians aderat, qui hoc factum crottibus implens,
Adjungensque amplam Lethei fluminis undam,
Salsatasque Mid aures, grandgaminique Thrasonis,
Fasciolam duplicem, absynthum, elleborum et macarone,
Trempavit soupam radotantibus atque nigaudis
Condignam the quam Gibou et Pochet, ad unguem,
Portier illustres, agitarunt. Morio deinceps
Aurati cumulans vastum ventramen aheni,
Hoc tulit ad summum, generos mente, magistrum
Qui, jabotum gonflans, celso sibi dulc riabat,
Impius in Superos, linguam vexando Deorum.
Ignoramus adhc si quello soupa placebit;
Ignoramus ei si abstulit farsula risum. . .
Intere OMNIS-HOMO costas sibi foll tenebat,
Tirlipitante suo creptantibus ente cachinnis.



Haud igitur, Rossi, plaintas vel soulcya msta
Ducere nixus eras, patri truculenta resorbens.
Tristes inter res, qudam sunt tant baroqu
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Ut lacrymas nequent zygomattica tollere muscla,
Sed, titillata, I largo flectuntur hiatu.
Et desopilandam versantur pungere rattam :
Talis erat Simon, mittens Parnassidem in exil,
Atque blocans fontes Aganippidos Hippocrenes!
At modus in rebus; paulisper sisto riandi.
Sunt immortales Gallorum mentibus Ill
Pierides, bland nutrices, usqu per annos
Dilect, cult, neglectaque nulla timentes.
Hugo frontipotens, Simon, Voltarius ipse,
Ant Virgilium Flaccumque oblivia prompta
Formidare queunt. Vel prdia rustica monstrans
Vanierus, flores laudans hortosque Rapinus,
Festivos modulans Christo Santollius hymnos,
Asservant famam in studios gente scholarum.
Rollinus, Coffin, rectores ambo juvent,
Prvalidant Simon, stirpes tulando futuras.
Illos assequitur sapientm norma magistrm
Qui formare volunt ben natos instudiantes,
Non tantm utilibus, positivis, terricolisque,
Sedque altis, sanctis, et menti rebus amnis.
Verm etenim caro junct sunt sorte Noven :
Urania astrorum, populorum Terpsicha dansas,
Calliope, Clio, Polyhymnia gesta frequentant;





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Melpomene, Euterpe, Thalia, Erato, insimul ardent
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V cui quod renuit! Fourrat sibi doigta per illos.
Ah! pro vendendo chandellas atque cafetum,
Choucrotam, brandy, boudinos atque bierram,
Toilas atque drapos, perrucas et solieros,
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Broderies, schallos, dentellas et potapissos.
Maisones, campos, Franam vel crimine totam.
Cursibus et Burs sectandis aure tenaci,
Et cultu cunctis reddendo materiebus,
Pro ben soupando, gaussando, rigolinendo,
Alti non opus est Parnassi grande loquel;
Nix, ia, Teutonum chsistis sufficit, hercle!
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Fas onagris comptas de septo arcere cavallas,
Et bouticant Ausoniam comptoire Camnam,
Sed non Grandmaistro Pindum vastare virentum,
Aut Phbum atque chorum Genovef trudere colli
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Attamen, et quanqum multo sit jussus amarus
Cordi, prsertim biviats fort patronis
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,
Rideo, sperno simul mentem spectando superbam,
Prcipitante levi normas arodre novandi,
Legs victoris tm promptu subtereuntem
Ut latios avos cum Musis sont negrit.
O nucium cessa, cessa quassator inique!
Hoc non durandum est; et, parvo tempore crisis,
Si scaber est panis quem mandunt infamulantes,
Se pistore fichent, ut se quoque fichat Apollo!
Dedignatur enim, post vanum castigamentum
Inflicium Phrygi Regi, vulgares vellere in aures.
Pulchr, immortales, temnunt blasphemata Mus;
Paul ulciscentur; vetitum autem mandere fructum,
Imprimis verdum, ben acerbum, mult crocantem,
Discipulis cert jubilamina dulcia spondet,
In quibus omnimod plausu flatuque juvabo,
Musula faribolum pipitrix, operisque foltri,
Omnes qui illecebras cherchabunt et batifollas.
Faut grivarum merlos satis esse beantur
Gloutoni juvenes, ac ipsi gutture lauti.
Artis jmque me joyosi nemp magistri,
Coccaus, Belleau, dansarum doctus Arena,
Bezuis et Bolla, et Rabelasius, et Molierus,
Drleriis salsis charmantia floscula prbent,
Quorum adolescentes speciosa exempla faceti
quabunt, malgris rectoribus atque pionis,
Et bridam cunctis laxabunt fantasiabus.
Tunc per banca sciam montabunt continuelam
Simoni, quovis non unctam lubrificante,
Dentibus at totis grinantibus, oh! la la! mein her!
Spe infrena crepantem et brlantissima strictra.
Causam cui povero, n se pendere sub arbrum,
At saltem digitos pravis evolvere gestis
Et Dolpho-Therse spurcatam reddere capsam.
Haud misericordes etenim plermque pueri :
Phallepa, dironti, m phallpa, phallpa kiliai!
Qui blaterat Musas, blaterabitur aptis ollis.



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II.
Ite, igitur, pueri; linguis animisque favete.
(JUV).
Horresco! strident serr; te, grande Magister,
Tornatim nostr mordebunt atque sciabunt
Dentes in parvos morcellos millia centum,
Tm tot mittendos ad centum mille diablos.
Sint A, B. C... dentes, primi fors ecce sciatus :
A
Ut restes, Simon, per tempora longa minister,
In paradoxa ruis, vafer, et queis nemo subind
Ambiguas vellet paulisper promere curas.
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B
Bonus, bona, bonum,
Et pros paululm,
En omne latinum
Lyco concessum.
Sed colere Phbum
Incommodum, stultum,
Atque prohibitum!
Malus, mala, malum!
Pauver, pauvra, pauvrum!
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C
1. Quid opus est versu latino cantare?
Et quid opus pros latin pallere?
Nonne satis gallum parlare, legere,
Scribere, comptare, facil rimare
Sub tono Tra, tra la la (bis)
Sub tone Tra deri dera.
Tra la la?


2. Linguam allemandum est aptum discere,
Valsas et valsantes ben cognoscere;
Tunc non Septentrio vincet Meridiem;
Meridies autem habebit requiem
Sub tono Tra, tra la la, (bis), etc.


3. Oportet prsertim credere Simoni,
Non esse memores generis paterni;
Nemp si latinum nimis loquimini,
Habiamini, gazzamini, scorchamini...
Hinc bellum choucrote contr macaroni,
Sub tono Tra, tra la la (bis), etc.
D
1. Au Parnasse il est un chne.
Arbor antiqua mundi,
O nous grimpions, hors dhaleine,
Prmia spe gagnandi,
Mais ce beau mt de cocagne
Non placuit Simoni;
Il a dit : Arbre et montagne
Non valent macaroni (bis).


2. Ce nest pas qeu Simon aime
Macaroni-ratata;
Car cest chre de carme
A latio trovata.
Ce que le Grand-matre estime
Pingue est in lechefrit :
Dindon, caille, et pour la rime
Saucissus cum choucrot (bis).
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3. Adieu, chne du Parnasse,
Myrt dulces et lauri!
Toute langue, toute race,
Cultusque sciat mori!
Le jeu nen vaut les chandelles;
Non lucrum dant carmina;
Au veau dor soyons fidles;
Vivat Sancta Crumena! (bis)
E
Simon! Simon semper eris;
Forsan PE-TRA
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vocaberis
A Satano, cm videbit
Netra super quo struxerit
dem Revolutionis
Dicatam diablis inferis,
Qu, jm lezardata in muris,
Ecroulabit in tenebris.
Simon, Simon! pauper Simon;
Frustr rimaris cum Dmon.
F
1. Nuper apud Gallum,
Ad oram Sequan,
Terribile bellum
Venerat in fine.
Tempus pacis bonum
Musis, Apolline...
Viva sal latinum
Atque macarone! Bis


2. Atqui nunc est jussum
Simoni potente
Antiquum Parnassum
Fermare juvent;
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Miss sunt ad Diablum
Correct Camn.....
Viva sal latinum
Atque macarone! Bis.


3. Si Prussi prdios
Nostros desolare,
Causa sit nimios
Mus cultus dare.
Curramus ad Pindum lauris cuisin...
Viva sal latinum
Atque macarone! Bis.


4. Tunc linguam Teutonum
Oportet discere,
Et illud jargonum
Classico miscere;
Mixtura sermonum
Nobis placet ben...
Viva sal latinum
Atque macarone! Bis.


5. Gradus ad Parnassum
Erat cotabile;
Opus mins grossum
Erit plus utile.
Librairi, jus bonum!
Biscabunt mtin...
Viva sal latinum
Atque macarone! Bis.


6. Hurrah! vivat semper
Simonis gloria!
Hic Summus magister
Auget ludibria.
Bahut fit amnum
Julio Simone...
Viva sal latinum
Atque macarone! Bis.
G
Musas ut muscas chassantem turpiter illum
Pniteat culp promptis et valid!
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Vindex accurrit Phbi chorus omnis, et un,
Cum virgis lauri virgilificat lul-um.
Ipsa ego de Pindo in lutum pulsata clabousso,
Nullaque cuistrorum brossa lavabit eum.
Quotquot se tollunt de magno sidera ponto.
Tot rorate suis, quora, luminibus.
H
Trempa tuum panem,
O Simon beate!
In soupam alacrem
Quam portavit ad te
Momus in stichabus
Macaronicabus! Bis.


...............................................


Se tantm cantare messouffle!
Vos ctri, ctera! Pantouffle!
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Lundigrasso, sexto Kalendas Martii, 24 feb. 1873.
Scribebat A. TRISTELLATUS.
Mus macaronic ab altaribus ponticis.


FOOTNOTES
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The journal Guida del Popolo, printed at Bastia, contains this
elegy by Mr. D. Rossi, dedicated to an illustrious French prelate.
He has made a separate printing of it, in-8
o
.

2
The first part of the circular by Mr. Jules Simon has been
inserted without a date into the Official Journal of October 2, and
the second part into the number for October 3, 1872.

3
This line, and the recollection of the student Thrason (thraso,
the fool-hardy one; a bully), who escapes from the prison of a
school, mocking Apollo and the Muses, is taken from the Origin of
the Cadenette, Crinalis catenul origo, a piece inserted into the
Mus rhetorices by P. de la Sante,** an interesting collection
where some facetious subjects, treated gracefully, occupy a small
place. Presumption and sloth, then and now, never lack excuses to
oppose the great good sense invoked by Rollin, in his Treatise on
Classical Studies, in order to show the utility of Latin poetry in
elementary schools. Here are the excuses by the inventor of the
Cadenette, and Mr. Simon has not given any more plausible ones:
Cur nos Pierides, cur nos crinitus Apollo
Futilibus nugis studioque morantur inani?
Desinat Aonias tua, Phbe, superbia lauros
Ostentare, quibus vatum delira coronas
Tempora; si qua tuis, te judice, gloria lauris,
His tibi cinge caput; placeat mihi Martia laurus
Una; unam deceat generosos nectere frontes.
And here now, in a very few words, are the main grounds for
favouring poetry in our schools: Latin poetry, I mean; because it
would be rash to encourage in our young the careless flight of an
indulgent and often deceitful Muse:
. . . . . You, holy Poetry, gave to our mind a chariot and a
mistress; you bend the neck of the reluctant to reins; you add
the wingd sandal to [the feet of] the slow; you educate the
rough-hewn; etc.
POLITIEN, trans. by Bill Thayer.
Jac. Wallius has written a very nice letter in Latin on this theme,
addressed to one of his nephews at the start of his studies : Cur
potas multi docti homines in postremis habeant; ut rem
fastidiosissimam, velut inutilem aut long infr se positam, posim
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despiciant, non aliud occurrit certis, qum quod et ipsi
absolutissim literarum cognitione et ornamentis ingenii atque
lingu, necessariis ad poticam prsidiis, careant. M. Jules
Simon will find this little letter at the end of the Anvers edition,
1699.

4
GOETHE, in Hermann and Dorothea, swears he received
inspiration from the nine sisters in turn, he consecrates the nine
cantos of his delightful poem to them in the following
order : Calliope-Terpsichore, Thalia, Euterpe, Polymnia, Clio,
Erato, Melpomene and Urania.

5
M. LHritier (in lAin) made an analogous enumeration in
Plutarque drlatique about Alexandre Dumas : Moneta
gubernante, papiero timbrato administrante, suifo, cotono, lan,
pipere, sucro, caneli, clysopomp, stercopodret, arabico-racahuto
et cahutchucio regnantibus, he has recognized and paid court to all
these forces.

6
If, among the people being borne along by modern Society,
there may be some who do not have the leisure to consecrate their
youth to a classical education, let them follow the bent of their
interests, but do not require education, under the color of
Equality, to descend to the same level for everyone. (Disc. by M.
Batbie, minister of Public Instruction, at the awarding of the prizes
of the General Examination of 1873.)

7
Biviatus for bifurcation, seems more exact to us than the
expressions trivium and quadrivium, used in the Middle Ages to
designate, on the one hand, the study of grammar, rhetoric, and
logic; and on the other hand, that of arithemetic, geometry,
astronomy and music.

8
This tactic of creating paradox, put in place by certain men in
power for some time now, in order to perpetuate themselves in it,
has a fatal cleverness. Indeed, once it is conceived, the party
line is promulgated without opposition, its promoter might be the
only one qualified to follow it, and so he regulates development
and progress by it. Then the best minds must assume the
difficulties of taking this step backwards. Thus, the full-fledged
paradox endures with its sad consequences. Later, nothing less
than the evidence of an impasse, or an imminent disaster, is
necessary to decide to abandon it, too late, with the downfall of its
inventor.

9
PE-TRA, what thing. NE TRA, no thing, nothing
(Dictionnaire breton-franais).



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MUS MACARONIC
AD RADICALES

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Isti troublrunt mutino brouillamine Franam.
Remy Belleau. Bellum huguenoticum.
O blaggatores mundi, falotique savantes,
Qui scitis legere, et comptare, et chirographare,
Ideis creusis ronflantes tundere phrazes,
Crebrs esmeutas avidi suadere popello,
Qui ab singis patribus proceditis, auspice Jocko,
Seu crocodilatris, radjahs Timoris ad instar,
Quique negate Deum, bambocchica grossa genantem,
Cuidantes Christo meliores esse magistri. . . . .,
Vos amo! Bacchus itou, Venus, idolatria cuncta;
Sed nimim fortes vos trouvant farcibus ipsi,
Cascadibusque bone minitantes culmen Olympi,
Erg, pantoquetas
1
braillantes estaminettis,
Otia cabboulotis, saloonis bella gerentes,
Dm vestram bossam roulatis ventre criardo,
Vobis nunc vellem badinosos ludere versus,
Grandaque joyositas esset choreare simultim.
Nam mea par vestr, bonamici, constat origo,
Ut mod plaisanti monstrabo carmine, fratres.
At me fata vetant his indulgere jocosis
Quin pris accelerem vos castigare cheritos,
Brevi pro longis, ribaldi, grundine noxis.
Qui ben castigat ben amat jm dixit et alter.
O Radicales! tapajans pecus omnebibentm,
Escoutate meas, auri prudente, querelas.


Confiteor, fratres, ego sum quoque neptila sing.
Grandpater hirtus Pan, grandmater Fausta-Gorilla
Hybridulam peperant cui nomen Bella-Macacca.
Corpore bella suo, clinaque fronte mignardo,
Mnemosin illa fuit quondam violent jalousa
Quam fecundrat Musis felic novenis
Juppiter omni-parens, Atqui, cm fort flanaret
Rex Superm in terr, sortes cherchando galantas,
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Hunc videt, hunc epiat subit exsilit impetuosa,
Cajolat astut mod flirtitur ipsa per illum,
Mnemosquam simulans, et mascans gripmina tendris.
Nox erat; et gilvi sunt omnes noctil catti!
Fraus inopina Jovem tm prompta sub oscula troublat. . . .
Et nascor, duplicis deployans indolis stus :
A Jove, clicolum mi advenit ofrma loquendi,
Ingenium vivax et aliquid numine dignum;
Maccaque drleriis me multm nutriit alma
Qu faciant risu spissim pouffere gentes.
Proptere ad mentum me caressavit Apollo,
Sub sellisque chori me collogeavit in altis,
Tympanulum semper, cum masco sp gerentem
Pro memori matris simulo, patrisque tonitru.
Melans ambrosi ductam cum fromage pastam,
Cuisinis Pindi Macaronia Musula dicor;
olides Macareus, vicinus nomine quanqum,
olides Macareus me corm pedere nec quit.
Ridiculis hilarans, itidemque maligna malignis,
Sum gentilla bonis garonibus, undiquequque
Cortisata satis juvenum bouillante caterv.
Sed numqum, testor, nunqum nunquissim, juro,
Neptiolam sing vellem quiparare sorellis
Mnemosin div, ut divo Patre, nobilitatis.
Me pudor enchanat, memet non sentio dignam
Illarum, verbis collantem sauvaja cultis.

Hei ben, singigeni! caudatis nonne duobus
Quadrumanis nati, genealoga vestra fatentes,
Hc mea, justa nimis, exempla subire potestis?
Im habile et proprium, decet, expedit atque necesse est
Gentibus humanis gentes secernere vestras.
Amplis offensas non vult tolerare babouinas
Omnipotens Genitor, cujus mandata facesso.
O Radicales! paulatim corpore si vos
Changeastis, non clesti tamen ente fruentes,
Constaner bassos monstratis pectore diro
Fulvorum instinctus, queis, panditur ortus ab imo.
Fratres inter vos, hominum autem nomen et des
Usurpavistis, clo terrque molesti.
Nil magnum gestis, nil dignum, nobile vestris;
Non amor in Psychen, tantm furor ardet in artus;
Vos Furi ducunt, non ver justa Minerva
Per cdes, astus, annexatam urbibus URBEM.
Ignoscat ve PIUS, veniam det sive Redemptor
Mitis; at Superi quos ridiculastis Olympi
Diffitentur vos, ullis sine laudibus ausos.
Vadite, singigeni; ltas cherchate forestas
Qu pariter vobis glandes fontesque minstrent;
Vignificate locos; sine vitibus esse nequetis;
(Sed non gaillardos, brutas facit archibibatus).
Frangite connubium; crebr mutate femellis,
Cuomo de vestiment, vultis put ferre chemisas;
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Natos et natas communi parte creatos,
Vos embtantes escam potumque petendo,
Grouillantes poveris dimittite matribus illc;
Putres ad libitum lutis infoutite mortos,
Sine crux, sine lux, sine aqua benedictus,
Et quod pejor est, importunos sine sacersos
2
. . . .
Nec troublate novis facinorgibus ardua rerum
Tempra; nec tetro solemnia rumpite flutu;
Pestila nec faiblis animabus ferte venena;
Nec brlate domos, archvas et monumenta;
Nec tentate, pigri, fructum violare laboris,
Vos sociale nov jactantes pandere crust
3
. . . .
Nec... nec...; funebre hoc nollem deroulare chapitrum
Cui non dissimiles estis donare parati.
Concludo; fidis, bonamici, credite verbis :
O Radicales! Non mesmas ducite vitas.
Damnosque vi retr divertite passus;
Aut rapid scalam degringollabitis altam
Qu ad species hominum lent ascendisse putatis
Spontibus attomulis, nullo generante Deorum.
Ex intellectu tantm gardare maliam
Fas erit, falso brouillamina fda savoiro.
Verbo iterm clo privati, pna blagts
Et jacti prlo poisoni quotidiano,
Chimpanz, Satyri, Bacchi turpssima turba
Mox eritis, Dixi; supremum audita monitum :
Singigeni aut homines, tandem resipiscite! Bonsoir!
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Mardigrasso, quinto kalendas Martii, 25 Febr. 1873.
Scribebat A. TRISTELLATUS.
Mus macaronic ab altaribus ponticis.


FOOTNOTES



1
Pantouqueta (Provenal), a drinking song.

2
These two lines, strangers to both prosody and grammar, are
the text of a funeral oration, a very funny one, in the verse of
Lower Brittany, in honor of a bluejay by the rector of Saint-Jean-
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du-Doigt. Meulidiguez quguin gar cure Sant-Yan-ar-Bis.
Morlaix, chez Ledan, vers 1803.**

3
Nova Crusta socialis, the New Social Class of Upstarts or
Wannabes.




FRANCPORTUS HECATOMBE

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Nullos espargnat enrabiata lues.
ARENA. Bell. gen.
Vah! stupeant gentes! poili plumque phalanges
Vulpes et cervus, lepus, aper, phasia, perdix,
Per campos, silvas, Spatiosa per thera cli,
Autumno insultant, sanctum joculantur Hubertum.
Incagantve bon tristantia templa Dian.
In vacuo restat permissio chassis inanis
Carnere; fichuta et mea currunt franca viginti.





Est prop Compeignam Francports hospita villa
Qu fueram, pauper, pro opulent chasse vocatus.
Possessor vill, metarum fortis amator,
In canibus centum vigilantes ducere curas
Suetus erat; lat hoc celebrabat fama dog-huttum.
Heu! quid aam? lacrymis cit suffocarer amaris
Si sortem subitam vellem narrare disertim!
Pauca loqaur : Nemorum Nymph, diffundite fletus!
Flete, pi, mecum; nil tm crudele Dian.
Vixerunt centum lecti pro stirpe molossi
Racibus in multis quas dixit laude Fracastor.
Vixerunt centum! Nympha, diffundite fletus!
Horrisona hc centum reticebunt guttura posths
Quorum waobao tremblabant cervus et aper,
Prdo lupus, caulumque vorator Jano-lapinus. . .
Flete, pi, mecum; Nymph, diflundite fletus!



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In comitem turbam nonnullos Marquisus angios
Intermiscuerat, valid de gente, recenter,
Qui tamen occulti rabiei gessere veneni
Germina, et immani socios fdre momorsu.
Mox agitatores dignoscunt signa pericli,
Sunt et in ambiguo quis sit rabiosus; an ille,
Aut alter? plures possent servare vel unum?
Tunc castellanus, plenus mroribus, hret. . .
Paulisper ver; btarum nemp medentem
Consulit : Hei! damnant Epidauri oracula cunctos! . .
Vultum herus obnubens, compescit palpita cordis,
Strychnina et rapidas mortes poisonna ministrant.
Vixerunt centum! . . Mea quid sunt franca viginti
Strages ant illas, et tantos ant dolores,
Impensas itidem nummorum mille viginti
Temporis et pn renovandi tale canagmen?
Ah! mecum Nymph, nobiscum fundite fletus!
Vixit, eheu! vixit delect turba Dian!
Et tu non illos, Circes fort mula, Strychnin,
Fac mutando homines; habemus satis enrabiates.
A. T.



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Elf.Ed. Notes
* Although not Macaronica and not by an anonymous
and forgotten Englishman, the Polka Craze in the 19th
century inspired this wonderfully funny cartoon by
Charles Vernier, also a Frenchman:


POLKAMANIA.

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Lithograph by Charles Vernier, 1844.
Courtesy of the New York Public Library.
T H E P O L K A A T A P U B L I C D A N C E .

Youngman!Isay,youngman!Yourdancingisso
disorderlythatitisincompatiblewiththeconstitutional
authoritiesofyourhomeland!

Officer!Youwoundme!Youcanseethatwearejust
Polka-ing!

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** For whatever it may be worth today, the poem Origin
of the Cadenette, Crinalis catenul origo, by Jacques-
Franois-Xavier de la Borde, a senior in Rhetoric, can be
found on page 29, in the Mus rhetorices by P. de la
Sante. Asking for his opinion of it, since I don't speak
Latin, Bill Thayer did not think much of the poem, and he
speaks Latin and French. And as for the rest of the book,
he says, But why on earth would I, would anyone, be
interested in a 16c high-school poetry yearbook? Not
everything in Latin is worth reading!!
A cadenette is a queue of hair, a style worn by men for
several centuries. It could appear as a very long pigtail, or
braid, worn behind the head. The man who started the
style was a Marshal of France, called Honor dAlbert,
Lord of Cadenet (1581-1649). In the 18th century the
style was resurrected by military men and worn by them
for centuries. The French infantry was the first to adopt
it. The term later seems to have included different styles
of braids and lovelocks worn by both men and women in
other walks of life. The simple cadenette was expanded
and embellished over time, of course. It could be
interwoven with ribbons, powdered and added to wigs,
worn loose or pinned up, etc.
Here is an example of a soldiers cadenette worn on the
back of the head during the Napoleonic Era, in this
picture by Bosio, taken from a very beautiful website on
the History of French Culture and Fashion: La Mesure de
lExcellence, created by Richard Le Menne:


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<I>Les Oublies</I>, by Franois-Joseph Bosio. A drawing of a French
soldier with a long skinny cadenette (braid) trailing down his back to
his waist, beneath his wide black hat. He is smiling and looking at
three women and a child at a fountain. Picture from the site <I>La
Mesure de l'Excellence, and probably from a period magazine of the
time.


Les Oublies, by Baron Franois-Joseph Bosio (1768 -1845).
Courtesy of La Mesure de lExcellence.



Another older example of a cadenette, this time as a braid
just behind the ear, was worn by Christian IV, the king of
Denmark and Norway, from 1588 to 1648. It can be seen
in this portrait of him, in oil, by Karel van Mander:


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Christian IV, by Karel van Mander.


Whatever happened to cadenettes? you may ask. They
are alive and well in the 21st century in a new guise, with
a new name: hair extensions. But the old French name is
much catchier!


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*** The pastors name was Bail, or Baill and he lived in
the 18th century. The reference to him, and to his funny
poem to a bluejay is in Rpertoire gnral de bio-
bibliographie bretonne, Volume II, by Ren Kerviler,
Rennes: Librairie Gnrale de J. Plihon et L. Herv, 1888,
p. 47, Number 84. There the entry for Bail, or Baill,
states:
A pastor of St-Jean-du-Doigt, named Baill, in the
18th century, said Kerdanet (Notices chronol., p.
445), copied by Cayot-Delandre (Biog. bret.), who
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composed some Breton poems among which is the
playful poem to the Bluejay: Meulidiguez Keguin (on
a loose sheet): but the dates of the biography are not
known.




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