The Butterfly | This soft slip of paper, folded in half

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by Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)

Translation © by Anyi Sharma

Le Papillon

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Ce billet doux plié en [deux]¹ 
cherche une adresse de fleur.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• I. Aboulker

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Confirmed with Jules Renard, Histoires naturelles, Paris, Modern-Bibliothèque, 1894, page 75. Note: this is a prose text. Line breaks have been added arbitrarily.

¹ Aboulker: "quatre"

Text Authorship:

by Jules Renard (1864 - 1910), "Le Papillon", appears in Histoires naturelles, first published 1894 [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 Isabelle Aboulker (b. 1938), "Le Papillon" [ voice and piano ], from Petites histoires naturelles - recueil 2, no. 2, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Leduc [sung text checked 1 time]
by Suzanne Baron Supervielle (1910 - 2004), "Le Papillon", 1934 [ voice and piano ], from Mélodies, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
by Rollo Hugh Myers (1892 - 1985), "Le Papillon", 1920, published 1921 [ medium voice and piano ], from Deux Histoires naturelles, no. 1, Éd. de La Sirène (Max Eschig) [sung text not yet checked]
by Bruno Rossignol (b. 1958), "Le Papillon", published 2010 [ medium voice and piano ], from Nouvelles Histoires naturelles, no. 3, Éd. Delatour France [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Anyi Sharma) , "The Butterfly", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2011-06-08
Line count: 2
Word count: 12

The Butterfly

Language: English after the French (Français)

This soft slip of paper, folded in [half]¹,
searches for a flower’s address.

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¹ Aboulker: "four"

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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Jules Renard (1864 - 1910), "Le Papillon", appears in Histoires naturelles, first published 1894
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This text was added to the website: 2023-09-01
Line count: 2
Word count: 15