Par deux portes, on peut m’en croire,
Les songes viennent à Paris,
Aux amants par celle d'ivoire,
Par celle de corne aux maris.

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Confirmed with Œuvres Complètes de Victor Hugo de l'Académie française. Nouvelle Édition, ornée de vignettes. Drame, Tome 1: Cromwell, Alexandre Houssiaux, Libraire-Éditeur, Paris, 1856, page 214.

Text Authorship:

• by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), no title, written 1817, appears in Cromwell, Acte III, “Les Fous”, scène 1 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Henri Barraud (1900 - 1997), "Quatrain", op. 19 no. 2 (1935) [ medium voice and piano ], from Trois Chansons de Gramadoch, no. 2, Éd. Amphion [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

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