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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.
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]
This text was added to the website: 2016-08-31
Line count: 13
Word count: 66
The blazing gemstones Which adorn the gladiator swords of kings And the bits of their palfreys Shine in the red slaughters. The crowd, drunk with the extravaganzas, Admires, in their humble fright, The blazing gemstones Which adorn the gladiator swords of kings. And [by] the praises nourished The princesses with cold expressions Scatter upon their straight bodices And upon their flowered golden skirts The blazing gemstones.
Translator's note for stanza 1, line 3: A palfrey is a small horse that was popular during the Middle Ages, so "bits" therefore refers to the part of the bridle that rests in the horse's mouth.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) 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
This text was added to the website: 2019-04-12
Line count: 13
Word count: 66