Desaugiers

Desaugiers, MARC, a once popular poet, whom some critics have set above Béranger, was born in 1772. After travelling abroad, he settled in Paris, where he became a writer of songs and vaudevilles. His subjects are generally love and wine; his verse is sweet and flowing. 'He is,' says Mr Saintsbury, 'the best light song-writer of France, with the single exception of Béranger.' He died in 1827.