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Roger Bontemps is a poem by William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray was an England novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satire works, particularly Vanity Fair , a panoramic portrait of English society....
, first published in his 1852
1852 in literature

The year 1852 in literature involved some significant new books....
 anthology, The Paris Sketchbook.

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Roger Bontemps was a fictional French character, personification of a state of leisure and freedom from care.

According to Pierre-Jean de Béranger
Pierre-Jean de Béranger

Pierre-Jean de B?ranger , was a France songwriter.He was born in Paris, and was not aristocratic, despite the use of "de" in the family name by his father, who had assumed the name of B?ranger de Mersix....
, Roger Bontemps is the personification of "Never say die".

Vous pauvres, pleins d'envie;
Vous riches, desireux;
Vous, dont le char dévie
Après un cours heureux;
Vous, qui perdrez peut-être
Des titres éclatans,
Eh! gai! prenez pour mâitre
Le gros Roger Bontemps.






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Roger Bontemps is a poem by William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray was an England novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satire works, particularly Vanity Fair , a panoramic portrait of English society....
, first published in his 1852
1852 in literature

The year 1852 in literature involved some significant new books....
 anthology, The Paris Sketchbook.

}}

Roger Bontemps was a fictional French character, personification of a state of leisure and freedom from care.

According to Pierre-Jean de Béranger
Pierre-Jean de Béranger

Pierre-Jean de B?ranger , was a France songwriter.He was born in Paris, and was not aristocratic, despite the use of "de" in the family name by his father, who had assumed the name of B?ranger de Mersix....
, Roger Bontemps is the personification of "Never say die".

Vous pauvres, pleins d'envie;
Vous riches, desireux;
Vous, dont le char dévie
Après un cours heureux;
Vous, qui perdrez peut-être
Des titres éclatans,
Eh! gai! prenez pour mâitre
Le gros Roger Bontemps.


Ye poor, with envy goaded;
Ye rich, for more who long;
Ye who by fortune loaded,
Find all things going wrong
Ye who by some disaster
See all your cables break,
From henceforth for your master
Bluff Roger Bontemps take.