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by Louise-Rose Gérard (1866 - 1953), as Rosemonde Gérard

Dans le vieux salon délabré
Language: French (Français) 
Dans le vieux salon délabré,
Pend le pastel d'une marquise ;
Si charmant qu'on madrigalise
Devant son cadre dédoré.

Tout rose et doublement poudré
De poudre et de poussière grise,
Dans le vieux salon délabré,
Pend le pastel d'une marquise.

Sous le sourire évaporé,
La bouche est tellement exquise
Qu'un moineau qui serait entré
La prendrait pour une cerise
Dans le vieux salon délabré.

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Confirmed with French Women Poets of Nine Centuries. The Distaff & the Pen, selected and translated by Norman R. Shapiro, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, pages 788 and 790.


Text Authorship:

  • by Louise-Rose Gérard (1866 - 1953), as Rosemonde Gérard, no title, appears in Vieilles choses, no. 2 [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 Cécile Chaminade (1857 - 1944), "Vieux portrait", published 1890 [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2015-12-14
Line count: 13
Word count: 63

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