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by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786 - 1859)

Adieu tout
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
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Quittez mon cœur, doux souvenir ;
Je ne peux plus vous retenir.

Que voulez-vous ? Est-ce ma vie ?
Ma vie, hélas ! n'est plus à moi ;
Il faut me rendre avec ma foi,
[Jusqu'aux pleurs que l'on]1 vous envie.

Quittez mon cœur, doux souvenir ;
Je ne peux plus vous retenir.

Fuyez l'amant qui me fut tendre,
Il ne veut pas vous recevoir ;
Et si vous voulez me revoir,
Allez au ciel, allez m'attendre.

Quittez mon cœur, doux souvenir ;
Je ne peux plus vous retenir.

Là, quand vous me verrez paraître
Si Dieu le veut, volez vers moi.
Au Ciel, pour [aimer]2 sans effroi,
Quel bonheur de se reconnaître !

Quittez mon cœur, doux souvenir ;
Je ne veux plus vous retenir.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   P. Duchambge 

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Confirmed with Les Œuvres poétiques de Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, ed. by Marc Bertrand, Grenoble : Presses universitaires de Grenoble, 1973.

1 Duchambge: "Jusqu'à mes pleurs qu'on"
2 Duchambge: "l'aimer"

Text Authorship:

  • by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786 - 1859), "Adieu tout" [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 Pauline Duchambge (1776 - 1858), "Adieu tout" [ voice and piano ]
        Score: Société des études Marceline Desbordes-Valmore [external link]  [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Henri-Pierre Poupard (1901 - 1989), as Henri Sauguet, "Adieu, tout !", 1959, first performed 1959 [ medium voice and piano ], from Trois élégies, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • ENG English (Laura Stanfield Prichard) , "Farewell to all of it", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Laura Stanfield Prichard [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2017-01-14
Line count: 20
Word count: 118

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