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

Une roulotte couverte en tuiles
 (Sung text for setting by F. Poulenc)
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Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  CAT ENG
Une roulotte couverte en tuiles
Le cheval mort un enfant maître
Pensant le front bleu de haine
A deux seins s'abattant sur lui
Comme deux poings

Ce mélodrame nous arrache
La raison du cœur.

Composition:

    Set to music by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Une roulotte couverte en tuiles", FP 86 no. 4 (1936), published 1937 [ high voice and piano ], from Tel jour Telle nuit, no. 4, Éd. Durand

Text Authorship:

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Grant Hicks) , "A caravan covered in tiles", copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Grant Hicks [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 7
Word count: 34