1839, 15 de Junho - THE LITERARY GAZETTE AND JOURNAL OF BELLES LETTRES, ARTS, SCIENCES

1839 15 de Junho

THE LITERARY GAZETTE AND JOURNAL OF BELLES LETTRES, ARTS, SCIENCES   No. 1169   London, Saturday, June, 15, 1839 pAG. 382

The same periodical [foreign Monthly Review], at the close of an account of M. Daguerre’s photogenic labours, and other continental experiments, says: - “At the last solemn Annuel Meeting of the Five Academies of the Institute, hels at the beginning of the month of April, M. Lemercier, a veteran poet of the Académie Française, ventured on a Pegasean flight in honour of M. Daguerre and his perennial photogenic labours! This worthy gentleman read to the Academy a long allegorial poem on this subject, in which he introduced the Photogenist, his compatriot, as an ideal personage, into a sort of fanciful Olympus, gave him an athereal mistress, called Lampelia, the daughter of the Sun, feigned that she was beloved and besought by Daguerre; that she was touched by his prayer; that she descended from her celestial abode, and gave herself up with all her charms to her earthly lover. At this, a sister of Lampelia, the Goddess of Fire, hight Pirophisa, conceived “inextinguishable wrath”, as Homer would say, and jealousy; she darted, therefore, through the skies one of her inflamed beams, hit the Diorama, and burnt out her sister’s lover, pots and pans, pictures, lamps and all. Their mutual father, Helios (the sun), winds up the poem by sitting in judgement on his two daughters, condemns Pyrophisa to the place that lies below Milton’s lowest, and promises eternal protection and glory to Lampelia, Daguerre, and the Daguerrotype! Poor Madame Daguerre is said to have looked on this poem as a fort mauvaise plaisanterie, and has since given her husband a good curtain lecture for what she considers to have been real boná fide infidelities!”