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by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard

Jacques Villon
 (Sung text for setting by F. Poulenc)
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Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG GER LIT
Irrémédiable vie
Vie à toujours chérir

En dépit des fléaux
Et des morales basses
En dépit des étoiles fausses
Et des cendres envahissantes

En dépit des fièvres grinçantes
Des crimes à hauteur du ventre
Des seins taris des fronts idiots
En dépit des soleils mortels

En dépit des dieux morts
En dépit des mensonges
L'aube l'horizon l'eau
L'oiseau l'homme l'amour

L'homme léger et bon
Adoucissant la terre
Éclaircissant les bois
Illuminant la pierre

Et la rose nocturne
Et le sang de la foule.

Composition:

    Set to music by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Jacques Villon", FP 161 no. 7 (1956), published 1957 [ medium voice and piano ], from Le Travail du peintre, no. 7, Éd. Max Eschig

Text Authorship:

  • by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard, no title, written 1948, appears in Voir. Poemes, Peintures, Dessins, in 6. De la lumière et du pain, no. 5, Genève, Éd. des Trois Collines, first published 1948

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

  • ENG English (Peter Low) , "Jacques Villon", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Julia Henning) , "Jacques Villon", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • LIT Lithuanian (Lietuvių kalba) (Giedrius Prunskus) , "Žakas Vijonas", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 20
Word count: 83

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