by Raymond Radiguet (1903 - 1923)

Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Ciel! les colonies
Dénicheur de nids
Un oiseau sans ailes
Que fait Paul sans elle?
Où est Virginie?
Elle rajeunit
Ciel des colonies,
Paul et Virginie
Pour lui et pour elle,
C'était une ombrelle
Ciel! les colonies.

First appeared in the revue Littérature, February 1920, then in Les Joues en feu.

Note: this text refers to a novel called Paul et Virginie (1788) by Bernadin de Saint-Pierre, set in Mauritius, then a French colony.

Composition:

    Set to music by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Paul et Virginia", FP 132 (1946), published 1947 [ medium voice and piano ], from Six mélodies, no. 2, Éd. Max Eschig

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

  • ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "Paul and Virginia", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 37