Joseph Berchoux

Joseph de Berchoux (Saint-Symphorien-with-Lay close to Lyon, November 3rd 1760 - December 17th 1839) was a Poète French.

Justice of the Peace when the French revolution burst, it enlisted to escape the proscription, and left the service after the storms of the Revolution to deliver itself to the letters. He begin with a Épître which is a joke against the old ones and begins with it worms famous: “ Which will deliver us Greeks and Romans? ”.

He published in 1800 the Gastronomy (1801), poem airspeed indicator, which obtained a great success.

Among its other writings:

Dance, or Gods of the Opera (1806 and 1808)
Voltaire, or Triumph of modern philosophy (1814)
Freedom, poem in four songs, by a small nephew of Scarron (1833).

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