Note 365 — BOOK I[330]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Auguste Marseille Barthélemy (1796-1867), the satirical poet and prose-writer, kept up a wager from March 1831 to April 1832, to publish a political satire weekly of several hundred verses and irreproachable form. They commenced in the thirty-first number of the Némésis. Finer talents were never prostituted to a baser cause.—B.