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1850
BON-BON
by Edgar Allan Poe

Quand un bon vin meuble mon estomac
Je suis plus savant que Balzac-
Plus sage que Pibrac;
Mon brass seul faisant l'attaque
De la nation Coseaque,
La mettroit au sac;
De Charon je passerois le lac
En dormant dans son bac,
J'irois au fier Eac,
Sans que mon coeur fit tic ni tac,
Premmer du tabac.
French Vaudeville

THAT Pierre Bon-Bon was a restaurateur of uncommon qualifications,
the cul-de-sac Le Febvre at Rouen, will, I imagine, feel himself at
liberty to dispute. That Pierre Bon-Bon was, in an equal degree,
skilled in the philosophy of that period is, I presume still more
especially undeniable. His pates a la fois were beyond doubt
immaculate; but what pen can do justice to his essays sur la
Nature- his thoughts sur l'Ame- his observations sur l'Esprit? If his
omelettes- if his fricandeaux were inestimable, what litterateur of
that day would not have given twice as much for an "Idee de Bon-Bon"
as for all the trash of "Idees" of all the rest of the savants?
Bon-Bon had ransacked libraries which no other man had ransacked- had
more than any other would have entertained a notion of reading- had
understood more than any other would have conceived the possibility of
understanding; and although, while he flourished, there were not
wanting some authors at Rouen to assert "that his dicta evinced
neither the purity of the Academy, nor the depth of the
Lyceum"- although, mark me, his doctrines were by no means very
generally comprehended, still it did not follow that they were
difficult of comprehension. It was, I think, on account of their
self-evidency that many persons were led to consider them abstruse. It
is to Bon-Bon- but let this go no farther- it is to Bon-Bon that Kant
himself is mainly indebted for his metaphysics. The former was
indeed not a Platonist, nor strictly speaking an Aristotelian- nor
did he, like the modern Leibnitz, waste those precious hours which
might be employed in the invention of a fricasee or, facili gradu, the
analysis of a sensation, in frivolous attempts at reconciling the
obstinate oils and waters of ethical discussion. Not at all. Bon-Bon
was Ionic- Bon-Bon was equally Italic. He reasoned a priori- He
reasoned also a posteriori. His ideas were innate- or otherwise. He
believed in George of Trebizonde- He believed in Bossarion. Bon-Bon
was emphatically a- Bon-Bonist.
I have spoken of the philosopher in his capacity of restaurateur.
I would not, however, have any friend of mine imagine that, in