Confirmed with Jules Renard, Histoires naturelles, Paris, Modern-Bibliothèque, 1894, page 75. Note: this is a prose text. Line breaks have been added arbitrarily.

Text Authorship:

• by Jules Renard (1864 - 1910), "Le Papillon", appears in Histoires naturelles, first published 1894 [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 Isabelle Aboulker (b. 1938), "Le Papillon" [ voice and piano ], from Petites histoires naturelles - recueil 2, no. 2, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Leduc [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Suzanne Baron Supervielle (1910 - 2004), "Le Papillon", 1934 [ voice and piano ], from Mélodies, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Rollo Hugh Myers (1892 - 1985), "Le Papillon", 1920, published 1921 [ medium voice and piano ], from Deux Histoires naturelles, no. 1, Éd. de La Sirène (Max Eschig) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Bruno Rossignol (b. 1958), "Le Papillon", published 2010 [ medium voice and piano ], from Nouvelles Histoires naturelles, no. 3, Éd. Delatour France  [sung text not yet checked]

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

• ENG English (Anyi Sharma) , "The Butterfly", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

This text was added to the website: 2011-06-08
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Word count: 12