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Nouvelles Histoires naturelles

by Bruno Rossignol (b. 1958)

1. L’Araignée

Language: French (Français) 
Une petite main noire et poilue
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Text Authorship:

  • by Jules Renard (1864 - 1910), "L'araignée", written 1904, appears in Histoires naturelles, Paris, Éd. Flammarion, first published 1904

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2. L'écureuil

Language: French (Français) 
Du panache, oui sans doute
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  • by Jules Renard (1864 - 1910), "L'écureuil", written 1904, appears in Histoires naturelles, Paris, Éd. Flammarion, first published 1904

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3. Le Papillon  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français) 
Ce billet doux plié en [deux]1 
cherche une adresse de fleur.

Text Authorship:

  • by Jules Renard (1864 - 1910), "Le Papillon", appears in Histoires naturelles, first published 1894

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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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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"

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4. La Chèvre  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français) 
Personne ne lit la feuille du Journal officiel 
affichée au mur de la mairie.

Si, la chèvre.

Elle se dresse sur ses pattes de derrière, 
appuie celles de devant au bas de l’affiche, 
remue ses cornes et sa barbe, 
et agite la tête de droite et de gauche, 
comme une vieille dame qui lit.

Sa lecture finie, ce papier sentant bon 
la colle fraîche, la chèvre le mange.

[Tout ne se perd pas dans]1 la commune.

Text Authorship:

  • by Jules Renard (1864 - 1910), "La Chèvre", appears in Histoires naturelles

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Confirmed with Jules Renard, Histoires naturelles, Paris, Modern-Bibliothèque, 1894, page 55. Note: this is a prose text. Line breaks have been added arbitrarily.

1 Aboulker: "Rien ne se perd dans"

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5. Le Chat  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français) 
I
Le mien ne mange pas les souris ; [il n’aime pas ça]1.
Il n’en attrape que pour jouer avec. 
Quand il a bien joué, il lui fait grâce de la vie, 
et il va rêver ailleurs, l’innocent, 
assis dans la boucle de sa queue, 
la tête bien fermée comme un [poing]2.
Mais à cause des griffes, la souris est morte.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Jules Renard (1864 - 1910), "Le Chat", appears in Histoires naturelles

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Confirmed with Jules Renard, Histoires naturelles, Paris, Modern-Bibliothèque, 1894, page 32.

1 Aboulker: "oui, oui, oui, pas les souris"
2 Aboulker: "point"
3 omitted by Aboulker.

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Total word count: 179
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