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by Élisabeth de France (1764 - 1794)

Que m'arrivera‑t‑il aujourd'hui, ô mon...
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Que m'arrivera-t-il aujourd'hui, ô mon Dieu ?
Je n'en sais rien. Tout ce que je sais, 
c'est qu'il ne m'arrivera rien 
que vous [n'ayez réglé, prévu]1 ou ordonné de toute éternité :
cela me suffit, ô mon Dieu, cela me suffit.
J'adore vos decrets éternels et impénétrables ;
je m'y soumets de tout mon cœur pour l'amour de vous ;
je veux tout, j'accepte tout, je vous fais [le]2 sacrifice de tout,
[et j'unis]3 ce sacrifice à celui de Jésus-Christ, mon divin Sauveur ;
je vous demande, en son nom et par ses mérites,
la patience dans mes peines et la soumission parfaite
qui vous est due pour tout ce que vous voulez ou [permettez]4.
Ainsi soit-il.

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Confirmed with Le Livre des jeunes Congréganistes de la Sainte Vièrge par le P. A. Maurel, S. J., Dijon, E. Pellion, 1865, page 402. This is a prose text; line breaks have been added to make it fit on the page. Note provided by Garrett Medlock: this text was ostensibly written by the sister of King Louis XVI, Madame Élisabeth de France (1764-1794) while imprisoned in the Temple Tower before her execution during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror.

1 Brouard: "ne l'ayez prévu, réglé"
2 Brouard: "un"
3 Brouard: "j'unis"
4 Brouard: "ordonnez"

Text Authorship:

  • by Élisabeth de France (1764 - 1794), "Prière de Madame Élisabeth de France" [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 Carmen Brouard (1909 - 2005), "Prière de Madame Elizabeth à sa prison", 1934 [ medium voice and piano ], from Reflets d'âme, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]

Another version of this text exists in the database.

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

  • ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , "Prayer of Madame Elizabeth in her prison", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Garrett Medlock [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2020-12-19
Line count: 13
Word count: 117

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