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Author: Guerin, Bertrand

Biography:

Guerin, Bertrand (fl 1808)

He appears to have been a transient Frenchman who left no other mark in American or French publication records than his participation in a literary feud. Verses by him in French, published in a Baltimore newspaper, triggered a reaction from a French author living in Georgetown DC in the form of a French poem, Le Satyre Américaine (1808). (The author used the rude pseudonym Edouard Je-M'en-Fiche but S&W identify him as John Lafitte.) Guerin was teaching French at Baltimore College at the time. The College, a private institution founded in 1804, was soon after merged with the University of Maryland as its college of arts and letters. (WorldCat)

 

Other Names:

  • M. Guerin
 

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