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by Jean de La Fontaine (1621 - 1695)

La Montagne qui accouche
Language: French (Français) 
Une Montagne en mal d'enfant
Jetait une clameur si haute,
Que chacun au bruit accourant
Crut qu'elle accoucherait, sans faute,
D'une Cité plus grosse que Paris :
Elle accoucha d'une Souris.

Quand je songe à cette Fable
Dont le récit est menteur
Et le sens est véritable,
Je me figure un Auteur
Qui dit : Je chanterai la guerre
Que firent les Titans au Maître du tonnerre.
C'est promettre beaucoup : mais qu'en sort-il souvent ?
Du vent.

Text Authorship:

  • by Jean de La Fontaine (1621 - 1695), "La Montagne qui accouche", appears in Fables [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 Régis Campo (b. 1968), "La Montagne qui accouche", 2005, published 2005 [ soprano and piano ], from Cinq fables de La Fontaine pour soprano et piano, no. 2, Éd. Henry Lemoine [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Pauline Thys (c1836 - 1909), "La Montagne qui accouche" [ voice and piano ], from 6 Fables de La Fontaine, no. 5, Paris : E. Saint-Hilaire [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2017-04-24
Line count: 14
Word count: 74

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