The July Revolution of 1830 made Auguste Barbier's reputation as a poet but also facilitated its subsequent decline. Not only is B arbier identified almost exclusively with the satirical verses he wrote in the aftermath of the three-day insurrection, which together made up his first published volume of poetry, Iambes (Iambs, 1832), he is invariably remembered for one poem in particular, "La Curée" (translated as "The Rush for the Spoils"). In the words of Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Barbier was thus "ce grandpoëte d'un jour et d'une heure que la renommée a immortalisé pour un chant sublime né d'un glorieux hasard" (the renowned poet of a single day and a single hour, whom fame has immortalize d for a sublime poem that owed its life to a glorious accident). Such an exclusive view of Barbier as a "French Juvenal" has persisted in ignorance of...