LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,283)
  • Text Authors (19,811)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,116)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Jean de La Fontaine (1621 - 1695)

Épitaphe d'un paresseux
 (Sung text for setting by F. Couperin)
 See original
Language: French (Français) 
Jean s'en alla comme il étoit venu,
Mangea le fonds avec le revenu,
Tint les trésors chose peu nécessaire.
Quant à son temps, bien le sçût dispenser :
Deux parts en fit, dont il souloit passer
L'une à dormir et l'autre à ne rien faire.

Composition:

    Set to music by François Couperin (1668 - 1733), "Épitaphe d'un paresseux", subtitle: "Air à boire", 1706 [ duet for 2 voices with basso continuo ], below the title: "Les Paroles sont de feu Monsieur de la Fontaine"

Text Authorship:

  • by Jean de La Fontaine (1621 - 1695), "Épitaphe d'un paresseux"

See other settings of this text.


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2011-04-30
Line count: 6
Word count: 47

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris