From A Bibliography of Alexandre Dumas père by Frank Wild Reed: Ten regular stanzas, of which five have ten lines each, rhyming a, b, a, b, c, c, d, e, e, d, and the remainder, which alternate with the foregoing, have six lines each. rhyming a, a, b, c, c, b.
First published in "La Psyché," February, 1829.
Next appeared in the "Keepsake Français," 1832.
Finally M. Glinel included it in his "Alexandre Dumas et Son Œuvre," pp. 217 to 219.
In "La Psyché" Dumas supplied the following note: "One remembers that H.R.H. Monsieur le Due d'Orléans returned to visit the college of this name, where, during his exile in Switzerland, in 1792, he was accepted as a professor. A fine picture by M. Roumy has preserved the memory, and inspired the verses about to be read."
