LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,138)
  • Text Authors (19,558)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,114)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Claudius Marcel Popelin (1825 - 1892)

Les hussards
Language: French (Français) 
C'étaient des cavaliers charmants que les hussards.
Le dolman ajusté, la flottante pelisse, 
Les tresses, la soutache, affectant maint caprice, 
Leur donnaient un bon air qui plaisait aux regards. 

Ils ne l'ignoraient point. Ils allaient, goguenards, 
Se laissant régaler par le conscrit novice ; 
Et l'habitant jaloux de la belle milice, 
Soustrayait prudemment son épouse aux pendards. 

Les filles raffolaient des jolis militaires 
Qui les fixaient avec des yeux incendiaires
Sous le petit talpack en poil d'astrakan noir,

Et qui, d'un pas réglé, lançant la sabretache 
Comme de jeunes cleres projettent l'encensoir.
Vous passaient tous les cœurs au fil de la moustache. 

Confirmed with Un livre de sonnets par Claudius Popelin, Paris, Charpentier et Cie, 1888, page 143.


Text Authorship:

  • by Claudius Marcel Popelin (1825 - 1892), "Les hussards", appears in Un livre de sonnets [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 François Luc Joseph Thomé (1850 - 1909), as Francis Thomé, "Les hussards", published [1879] [ high voice and piano ], from Dix mélodies, no. 10, Éd. Henri Heugel [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-02-21
Line count: 14
Word count: 101

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris