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by Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944)

Jeanne
 (Sung text for setting by A. Honegger)
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Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG GER
Dans Londres, la grand ville
il est un être plus seul
qu'un naufragé
dans son île
et qu'un mort dans un linceul
Grand badaud petit rentier
Jeanne voilà
son métier.

Composition:

    Set to music by Arthur Honegger (1892 - 1955), "Jeanne", H. 148 no. 1 (1941), published 1947 [ medium voice and piano ], from Petit cours de morale, no. 1, Paris, Éd. Salabert

Text Authorship:

  • by Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944), no title, written 1921, appears in Suzanne et le pacifique, Éd. Émile Paul, first published 1921

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

  • ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "Jeanne", copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Jeanne", copyright © 2006, (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: 8
Word count: 30

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