Roger Bontemps
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Roger Bontemps is a poem by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in his 1852 anthology, The Paris Sketchbook.
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Roger Bontemps was a fictional French character, personification of a state of leisure and freedom from care.
According to Pierre-Jean de Béranger, Roger Bontemps is the personification of "Never say die".
- Vous pauvres, pleins d'envie;
- 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.
This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.
