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by Charles, Duc d'Orléans (1394 - 1465)

Dieu ! qu'il la fait bon regarder !
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG ENG FIN ITA
Dieu ! qu'il la fait bon regarder !
La gracieuse bonne et belle ;
Pour les grans biens que sont en elle	
Chascun est prest de la loüer.

Qui se pourroit d'elle lasser ?
Tous jours sa beauté renouvelle.
Dieu ! qu'il la fait bon regarder !
La gracieuse bonne et belle !

Par deçà, ne de là, la mer
Ne sçay dame ne damoiselle
Qui soît en tous bien parfais telle.
C'est ung songe que d'i penser :
Dieu ! qu'il la fait bon regarder !

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Confirmed with Aimé Champollion-Figeac, ed., Les Poésies du Duc Charles d'Orléans, Paris, J. Belin-Leprieur fils, 1842, Page 28.


Text Authorship:

  • by Charles, Duc d'Orléans (1394 - 1465), "Chanson VI" [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 Ella Georgiyevna Adayevskaya (1846 - 1926), "Dieu! qu'il la fait bon regarder", 1887-8, published 1900 [ voice and piano ], from Trois rondeaux, no. 1, Milan : Ricordi [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "Dieu! qu'il la fait bon regarder!", L. 99/(92) no. 1 (1898-1908) [ four-part mixed chorus ], from Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orléans, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Hercule Gilles de Fontenailles (1858 - 1922), "Dieu ! qu'il la fait bon regarder", published 1911 [ voice and piano ], from Quatre chansons de Charles d'Orléans, no. 2, Éd. Rouart, Lerolle & Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Jean-Louis Aristide Hignard (1822 - 1897), "Odelette de Charles d'Orléans", published [1884] [ medium voice and piano ], from Rimes et mélodies, série III, no. 16, Paris, Éditions Louis Gregh et Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford (1910 - 1998), "Dieu, qu'il la fait bon regarder!" [ SATB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Vincent d'Indy (1851 - 1931), "Madrigal à deux voix pour soprano et violoncelle", op. 94 (1928), published 1929 [ high voice and cello ], Édition 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Raoul Laparra (1876 - 1943), "Dieu, qu'il la fait bon regarder", published 1924 [ high voice and piano ], from Le Missel Chantant, Suite de mélodies sur de vieilles poésies françaises - 1er volume , no. 9, Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Eugène Sauzay (1809 - 1901), "Chanson Ancienne", published 1886 [ voice, violin, cello, and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "God! but she is fair!", copyright © 2001, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Paolo Montanari) , copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Auditorium du Louvre , Grant Hicks [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 13
Word count: 80

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