by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Translation by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955)
La danseuse
Language: French (Français) after the Chinese (中文)
Our translations: ENG
La brise fait onduler les nénuphars dont le parfum vient embaumer le palais qui s’élève au milieu du lac. Un peu ivre, Li-Si danse. Tout à coup, chancelante, elle s’appuie contre le lit de jade blanc, et elle sourit.
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Research team for this page: Grant Hicks [Guest Editor] , Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
Confirmed with Franz Toussaint, La flûte de jade : poésies chinoises, Paris: H. Piazza, 1922, page 117.
Text Authorship:
- by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "La danseuse", appears in La flûte de jade [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Chinese (中文) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [text unavailable]
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