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To my wife
Translations © by John Wagstaff
Song Cycle by Jacques Chailley (1910 - 1999)
View original-language texts alone: À ma femme
Femme que j'ai choisie entre toutes les femmes [ ... ]
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- by Maurice Carême (1899 - 1978), appears in La Maison blanche, in 4. Femme, no. 4, Bruxelles, Éd. du croquis, first published 1946, copyright ©
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Tu es la saveur de mon pain [ ... ]
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- by Maurice Carême (1899 - 1978), appears in La Maison blanche, in 4. Femme, no. 5, Bruxelles, Éd. du croquis, first published 1946, copyright ©
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.You are the flavour of my bread [ ... ]
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Écoute : doucement la pluie tiède commence [ ... ]
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- by Maurice Carême (1899 - 1978), no title, appears in La Maison blanche, in 4. Femme, no. 6, Bruxelles, Éd. du croquis, first published 1946, copyright ©
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Un jour, tu le pris dans tes mains [ ... ]
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- by Maurice Carême (1899 - 1978), copyright ©
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.One day, you took in your hands [ ... ]
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