Frederic Bérat

Frederic Bérat , born the March 11th 1801 with Rouen and dead the December 2nd 1855 with Paris, is a Compositeur and Chansonnier French.

After having embraced the career of chansonnier, Frederic Bérat bound of friendship with the famous chansonnier Béranger who, the magnet like a child, took it under his protection.

He composed many songs with success, of which the Smoothing iron of Béranger (1843), the News of Paris (1854), Mimi Finch , My prison , Bonne hope , the Departure , Mountain the , the Return of small Savoyard the and the Norman Shepherd , but it is especially for My Normandy , the song now used like National anthem of the Bailliage of Jersey and, in a nonofficial way, like regional song of the Normandy, that he composed in 1836 on the boat which carried out it its birthplace with Holy-Addresses, which it passed to the posterity.

His/her older brother Eustace Bérat (Rouen, 1791 - Granville, 1870), draftsman, was also chansonnier.

Frederic Bérat is buried with the Cimetière of the Father-Lachaise. A place and a street bear today its name to Rouen.

Works

Tales and news of the Norman country , Tweed, Duval, 1930

References

Jules Claretie, Profiles of theater , Paris, Gaultier-Magnier, 1902
Louis Huart, Frederic Bérat : s.n., 1800
L. Batissier, Frederic Bérat , Paris, Francois, 1844
Charles Boissière, Frederic Bérat , Darnétal, Fruchart, 1857

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