Apologie de Chausson
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Claude Le Petit was burned at the stake for "atheism," but in particular for having written the poem "Apologie de Chausson," an apology of Jacques Chausson.
Apologie de Chausson
- Amis, on a brûlé le malheureux Chausson,
- Ce coquin si fameux, à la tête frisée;
- Sa vertu par sa mort s'est immortalisée:
- Jamais on n'expira de plus noble façon.
- Il chanta d'un air gai la lugubre chanson
- Et vêtit sans pâlir la chemise empesée,
- Et du bûcher ardent de la pile embrasée,
- Il regarda la mort sans crainte et sans frisson.
- En vain son confesseur lui prêchait dans la flamme,
- Le crucifix en main, de songer à son âme;
- Couché sous le poteau, quand le feu l'eut vaincu,
- L'infâme vers le ciel tourna sa croupe immonde,
- Et, pour mourir enfin comme il avait vécu,
- Il montra, le vilain, son cul à tout le monde.
English translation:
- Friends, they have burned the unfortunate Chausson,
- This famous rascal with the curly hair;
- His virtue is by his death immortalized:
- Never will one expire in a more noble fashion.
- He sang in a gay air the lugubrious song
- and wore without paling the starched shirt
- and from the eager chopping to the lit pile
- He watched death without fear and without a shiver.
- In vain, his confessor preached to him in the flame,
- crucifix in hand, of thinking about his soul;
- Seated under the post, when the fire had vanquished him,
- The scoundrel turned toward the sky his filthy rump,
- and, finally to die as he had lived,
- He showed, the villain, his backside to everyone.
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