Note 114 — Chapter 7 The End of my Studies—The Schiller Period—Early Youth and Bohemianism—Saint-Simonism and N. Polevoy

Escousse (b. 1813) and Lebras (b. 1816) were poets who wrote in collaboration a successful play, Farruck le Maure, followed by an unsuccessful one called Raymond. On the failure of the latter they committed suicide in 1832. Béranger wrote a poem on them.—(Translator’s Notes.)