Later Literature
Roger Bontemps appears several times in French literature, such as in a play by André Rivoire. The figure also appears in a poem by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in his 1852 anthology, The Paris Sketchbook.
- 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.
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