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by François Coppée (1842 - 1908)

Menuet
 (Sung text for setting by L. Diémer)
 Matches original text
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Marquise, vous souvenez-vous
Du menuet que nous dansâmes?
Il était discret, noble et doux
Comme l'accord de nos deux âmes.

Aux bocages le chalumeau
A ces notes pures et lentes ;
C'était un air du grand Rameau,
Un vieil air des Indes galantes.

Triomphante, vous surpreniez
Tous les coeurs et tous les hommages,
Dans votre robe à grands paniers,
Dans votre robe à grands ramages.

Vous leviez, de vos doigts gantés
Et selon la cadence douce,
Votre jupe des deux côtés
Prise entre l'index et le pouce.

Plus d'une belle, à Trianon,
Enviait, parmi vos émules,
Le manège exquis et mignon
De vos deux petits pieds à mules.

Et, distraite par le bonheur
De leur causer cette souffrance,
A la reprise en la mineur,
Vous manquâtes la révérence.

Composition:

    Set to music by Louis Diémer (1843 - 1919), "Menuet", published 1875 [ voice and piano ], from Vingt Mélodies, no. 6, Paris : Henri Heugel

Text Authorship:

  • by François Coppée (1842 - 1908), "Menuet", written 1874, appears in Le cahier rouge, no. 8, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1874

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

  • ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2022, (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.
Line count: 24
Word count: 133

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