Charles Loyson

Origin

Wire of the saddler Julien Loyson and Théodose-Holy Lesuc, he attends the college of Beaupréau. He dedicated himself to the career of the state education, and professed successively humanities and the Rhétorique in several colleges of department. At 17 years, he is professor with Gifted-the-Fountain then, he continues to teach in other provincial colleges.

In spite of successes of its teaching, he solicited like a favor to be allowed, to supplement his studies there, at the teacher training school that had just founded Napoleon i, by creating his imperial university. In 1809, it enters there, after three years of studies, it devotes to its thesis of Doctorat on “ the manner of translating the old poets ”. Loyson was soon named repeater of the school, and professor of humanities to the Lycée Bonaparte. While recognizing itself that its opinion comprises some paradoxes, it decides that the poets must be translated into worms and, to give the example, it translates Tibulle.

Course

He is regarded as the precursor of Lamartine. He teaches in various colleges and colleges then he sings the birth of the King de Rome in an ode which obtained some success and, after the Abdication of Fontainebleau, he writes “ more eloquently and more sincerely the fall of the tyrant and the return to the royalty ”. Loyson did not hesitate to sing the return of Louis XVIII in a news Ode over the fall of the tyrant and the re-establishment of our legitimate kings , 1814, in-8°. Charged, in August 1814, to make the speech with the prize giving of its college, become the College Bourbon, it spoken there in praise of the king and his race.

For this period, it was then allowed to give literary articles to the Journal of DEBATEs and General Journal of France . Highly protected by Misters Royer-Collard and Guizot, it entered the administration and was attached to the direction of the bookstore in the capacity as executive secretary.

Then the Hundred Days having made him lose this employment, oblige it with “ to change air ”, and it comes to spend a few days in its birthplace. It decides to go to return visit to his friend Élie Papin to Saumur. It will write there its booklet Royaliste which it made print with Angers on “ the declaration of the room of the representatives ”.

The royalist fiber

As of the return of Louis XVIII on the throne of France, its fidelity with the Bourbon S, enables him to have a post of head of office to the Ministère of the Interior; it was at the same time university lecturer of the pupils of second year at the teacher training school, where it contributed by its lessons to train distinguished professors, while continuing to collaborate in the General Journal of France.

It made appear the September 23rd 1815 a writing entitled Of the conquest and dismemberment of a great nation, or Written letter by large of Spain with Bonaparte , at the moment when this one had just made stop Charles IV and Ferdinand VII in the walls of Bayonne, where it had attracted them under pretext of reconcile their disagreements.

During the spring of 1816, its health condition worsens and obliges it to come to take rest in its birthplace. It will study there the English, an essential language to conclude its project of Traduction of the “ Tableau of the English constitution ”.

Loyson contributed in 1817 for the price of poetry proposed by the French Academy; its Discours on the happiness of the study obtained only the Accessit. This test was printed with some other poetries of the author, 1 vol. in-8°; and Louis XVIII, who approved the dedication of this volume, did not have, says one, scorned to make some corrections there. Its work is worth also this to him epigram of Victor Hugo:

Even, when the oison flies; it is felt that it has legs

Almost at the same time, Loyson gave the translation of the Tableau of the constitution of England , by Georges Custance, 1817, 1 vol. in-8° In 1817 it still took an active share with the drafting of the philosophical, political and literary Archives , newspaper rested by Mr. Guizot, and the purpose of who was to maintain and to develop the consequences of the ordinance of the September 5th.

As of this moment, dedicated to the policy, Loyson constituted the defender of the ministry, either in the Spectateur , or in a booklet with feeling, having for title Guerre with which seeks it, or Small letters on some of our great writers, by a friend of everyone, enemy of all the parties , 1818, in-8°. This lampoon, that the ministry made spread with profusion, had, by this means, three editions in the same year, and was followed soon of this other lampoon: Second countryside of War with which seeks it, or Continuation of the Small letters on some of our great writers , 1818, in-8°. These booklets were widespread with profusion by the Ministry.

As fertile as dedicated for the cause as he had embraced, he put at the day two more writings relating to the questions which occupied the government then:

Of the proposal of Mr. marquis Barthelemy and of the law of the elections , 1819, in-8°;
Of the responsibility for the ministers and the bill presented on this matter in the meeting of the House of Commons of the January 29th 1819 , in-8°.

Shown venality and severely accused in Minerve by the politician Benjamin Constant, Loyson did not fear to accept the combat body with body with a similar adversary. He writes a Lettre with Mr. Benjamin Constant , one of the writers of Minerve (1819, in-8°). He retorted

It is not necessary to be paid to often find your invariability at fault. It would be a money too easy to gain and the conscience would be doubly committed there

. Constant

who did not believe this so strong boy - left the ground of the discussion

Epilog

Poet, Polemist, lecturer at the Teacher training school, Charles Loyson occupied in same time, the post of head of office of the noncatholic worships to the ministry for the interior.

It publishes a volume Épîtres and reduced S , by Charles Loyson (1819, in-8°, with some elegies (which make have a presentiment of Lamartine).

But its mental activity, put at hard test to come to end from its multiple work, was to end up using its rather morbid constitution and, as of 1818, its doctors prescribed to him a complete intellectual rest and a physical exercise of at least six hours per day to fight “ the inertia of its intestines ”. At that time, it seems that he exceeded himself more still and, having a presentiment of its nearest end, he hastened “ to exhale the poetry which was in his heart and to put his feather at the services of his convictions ”.

One of its best inserted parts is the ode than it composed on the attack of the February 13rd 1820, it was for him the Chant of the swan. An inflammatory disease removed it the June 27th 1820 in Paris, in its apartment of the Rue of the Vat.

Its funerals were honoured with a many contest. Mr. Cousin, his school-fellow and his friend, pronounced on his tomb of the good-byes. Mr. Patin devoted to him in the College an interesting note.

In addition to the works which we quoted, it appeared in 1821 a novel allotted to Charles Loyson, entitled Cécilia Delaville , in-12. His/her brother, then inspector of the academy of Metz, claimed in time against this publication Apocryphe.

Work

He is the author of poetries, of works of literary criticism, historical studies, speech and articles for many newspapers. He published also Odes or Lettres addressed to Chateaubriand, Benjamin Constant, Casimir Delavigne, etc

Rhymes

That I like to re-examine you, turn of the Gothic centuries, And under your blacks crenels, of beautiful covered gardens, These sailing ships leaving your sides between open. But where are these ditches, where are these ancient walls? Beautiful trees that in their place one saw to rise, We did not known ourselves in my young age, And you offer your recent shade in vain to me, Where my heart and my eyes do not have anything to find. ( memories of childhood )

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