Les flamboyantes Pierreries
Qui parent [les glaives]1 des rois
Et les mors de leurs palefrois,
Brillent dans les rouges tueries.

La foule, [ivre]2 des féeries,
Admire, en ses humbles effrois,
Les flamboyantes Pierreries
Qui parent [les glaives]1 des rois.

Et dans les louanges nourries,
Les princesses aux regards froids
Sèment sur leurs corsages droits
Et sur leurs jupes d’or fleuries
Les flamboyantes Pierreries.

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¹ Koechlin: "le glaive"
² Koechlin (some sources): "amante"

Text Authorship:

• by Théodore Faullin de Banville (1823 - 1891), "Les pierreries", written 1875, appears in Les Exilés, in Rondels, no. 24, Paris, Édition Charpentier, first published 1878 [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 Charles Koechlin (1867 - 1950), "Les pierreries", op. 8 no. 3 (1891-1895), published [1897] [ high voice and piano ], from Rondels 2ème série, no. 3, Éd. E. Baudoux & Cie. [sung text checked 2 times]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , "The gemstones", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Laura Stanfield Prichard [Guest Editor] , Garrett Medlock [Guest Editor]

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