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by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire
Translation © by Laura Prichard

La Puce
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Puces, amis, amantes même,
Qu'ils sont cruels ceux qui nous aiment ! 
Tout notre sang coule pour eux.
Les bien-aimés sont malheureux.

First published in the revue La Phalange no. 24, June 15, 1908, as no. 13 in La Marchande des quatre saisons ou le bestiaire mondain, a collection of 18 poems, and later in Le Bestiaire ou Cortège d'Orphée, Paris, Deplanche, 1911.


Text Authorship:

  • by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "La Puce", written 1908, appears in Le Bestiaire, ou Cortège d'Orphée, no. 16, first published 1908 [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 Claude Ballif (1924 - 2004), "La Puce", op. 1b no. 16 (1945-48), published 1994 [ voice and piano ], from Le Cortège d’Orphée, no. 16, Édition Durand & Fils [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Régis Campo (b. 1968), "La Puce", 2007-08 [ soprano and orchestra or piano ], from Le Bestiaire, no. 7, Éd. Henry Lemoine (piano reduction) [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Louis Durey (1888 - 1979), "La Puce", op. 17a no. 16 (1919), from Le Bestiaire, no. 16 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "La Puce", 1960 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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  • ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "The flea", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 4
Word count: 21

The flea
Language: English  after the French (Français) 
Fleas, friends, lovers even,
They are cruel, those who love us! 
All our blood flows for them.
The beloved are unhappy.

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  • a text in French (Français) by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "La Puce", written 1908, appears in Le Bestiaire, ou Cortège d'Orphée, no. 16, first published 1908
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This text was added to the website: 2016-04-10
Line count: 4
Word count: 23

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