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by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732 - 1799)

Couplets de Chérubin
 (Sung text for setting by F. de la Tombelle)
 Matches base text
Language: French (Français) 
Auprès d'une fontaine
Que mon coeur, mon coeur a de peine,
Songeais à ma marraine,
Sentais mes pleurs couler.

Sentais mes pleurs couler,
Prêt à me désoler:
Je gravais sur un frêne,
Que mon coeur, mon coeur a de peine,
Sa lettre dans la mienne,
Le roi vint à passer.

Le roi vint à passer,
Ses barons, son clergé,
Beau page, dit la reine,
Que mon coeur, mon coeur a de peine,
Qui vous met à la gêne?
Qui vous fait tant pleurer?

Qui vous fait tant pleurer?
Nous faut le déclarer.
Madame et souveraine,
Que mon coeur, mon coeur a de peine,
J'avais une marraine,
Que toujours adorais.

Composition:

    Set to music by Fernand de la Tombelle (1854 - 1928), "Couplets de Chérubin" [ voice and piano ], confirmed with a CD booklet

Text Authorship:

  • by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732 - 1799), "Couplets", from La Folle Journée, ou Le Mariage de Figaro, Act II Scene 4, first published 1778

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