by Théodore Faullin de Banville (1823 - 1891)
Pierrot
Language: French (Français)
Le bon Pierrot, que la foule contemple, Ayant fini les noces d'Arlequin, Suit en songeant le boulevard du Temple. Une fillette au souple casaquin En vain l'agace de son oeil coquin ; Et cependant mystérieuse et lisse Faisant de lui sa plus chère délice, La blanche lune aux cornes de taureau Jette un regard de son oeil en coulisse À son ami Jean Gaspard Deburau.
Jean-Gaspard Deburau: a famous French mime (1796-1846)
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Authorship:
- by Théodore Faullin de Banville (1823 - 1891), "Pierrot", appears in Les Cariatides, in Les Caprices - en dizains à la manière de Clément Marot, no. 6, first published 1842 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "Pierrot", L. 30/(15) (1881) [ voice and piano ], from Quatre chansons de jeunesse, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Pierrot", FP 66 (1933), first performed 1996 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CHI Chinese (中文) (Yen-Chiang Che) , "皮耶羅", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Bertram Kottmann) , "Pierrot", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Ingrid Schmithüsen) , "Pierrot", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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