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by Pierre-Félix Louis (1870 - 1925), as Pierre Louÿs

Les contes
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG GER
Je suis aimée des petits enfants; dès qu'ils 
me voient, ils courent à moi, et s'accrochent 
à ma tunique et prennent mes jambes dans 
leurs petits bras.

S'ils ont cueilli des fleurs, ils me les donnent 
toutes ; s'ils ont pris un scarabée ils le 
mettent dans ma main; s'ils n'ont rien ils me 
caressent et me font asseoir devant eux.

Alors ils m'embrassent sur la joue, ils 
posent leurs têtes sur mes seins ; ils me 
supplient avec les yeux. Je sais bien ce que 
cela veut dire.

Cela veut dire: "Bilitis chérie, dis-nous, 
car nous sommes gentils, l'histoire du héros 
Perseus ou la mort de la petite Hellé."

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   C. Debussy 

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Text Authorship:

  • by Pierre-Félix Louis (1870 - 1925), as Pierre Louÿs, "Les contes", appears in Les Chansons de Bilitis, in Bucoliques en Pamphylie, no. 18 [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 Jeanne Bernard (1895 - 1965), "Les contes" [ voice and piano ], from Trois chansons de Bilitis, no. 2, Paris, Senart [sung text not yet checked]
  • by André-Marie Cuvelier , "Les contes", 1935 [ voice and piano ], from Chansons de Bilitis, 2ème recueil, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Georges Dandelot (1895 - 1975), "Les contes", published 1924 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Georges Dandelot (1895 - 1975), "Les contes", 1924, published 1929, first performed 1929 [ high voice and piano ], from Six Chansons de Bilitis, 1er recueil, no. 2, Paris, Éd. Max Eschig [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "Les contes", L. 102/(96) no. 3, from Chansons de Bilitis, no. 3, note: incidental music to accompany the recitation of twelve prose poems. [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (Marvin J. Ward) , "The tales", copyright © 2003, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Geschichten", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Marvin J. Ward

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 15
Word count: 110

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