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by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)

Je n'ai pas oublié, voisine de la ville
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG SPA
Je n'ai pas oublié, voisine de la ville,
Notre blanche maison, petite mais tranquille,
Sa Pomone de plâtre et sa vieille Vénus
Dans un bosquet chétif cachant leurs membres nus ;
— Et le soleil, le soir, ruisselant et superbe,
Qui, derrière la vitre où se brisait sa gerbe,
Semblait, grand œil ouvert dans le ciel curieux,
Contempler nos dîners longs et silencieux,
Et versait largement ses beaux reflets de cierge
Sur la nappe frugale et les rideaux de serge.

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Confirmed with Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal, Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1857, in Spleen et Idéal, pages 162-163. Note: this was number 70 under Spleen et Idéal in the first edition of Les Fleurs du mal but number 99 or 123 under Tableaux parisiens in subsequent editions.


Text Authorship:

  • by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), no title, appears in Les Fleurs du mal, in 2. Tableaux parisiens, no. 99, appears in Les Fleurs du mal, in 1. Spleen et Idéal, no. 70, Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, first published 1857 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Gérard Bertouille (1898 - 1981), "Je n'ai pas oublié", 1939 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], from Cinq poèmes de Baudelaire, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Pierre Capdevielle (1906 - 1969), "Je n'ai pas oublié", 1931 [ medium voice and piano ], from Quatre mélodies, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Albert Huybrechts (1899 - 1938), "Ressouvenance" [ high voice and piano ], Bruxelles, Édition CeBeDem [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Georges Lonque (1900 - 1967), "Je n'ai pas oublié", op. 2 (1924) [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • ENG English (Poom Andrew Pipatjarasgit) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • SPA Spanish (Español) (Juan Henríquez Concepción) , "Yo no he olvidado", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Juan Henríquez Concepción , Poom Andrew Pipatjarasgit [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2008-09-03
Line count: 10
Word count: 80

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