A la belle maraîchère d'Argenteuil Au corsage ouvert sur les roses des seins Que disais-tu, bon poète amoureux? Le chemin creux Était plein de feuilles Et ton coeur des pires desseins. Mieux eut valu du reste audacieux indiscret Qu'oiseux discours: La chemise s'échancrait En molle fente; Le jupon était court Et la fille riait de sa gorge charmante. Mais la peur de quelque bleu gendarme, O rimeur, te retenait sans doute, Car tu es revenu sur la route Sans la belle maraîchère d'Argenteuil Et même je crois une pointe de larme A l'oeil.
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Text Authorship:
- by Arthur Justin Léon Leclère (1874 - 1966), as Tristan Klingsor, "La belle d'Argenteuil", appears in Humoresques, no. 13, Amiens, Bibliothèque du Hérisson, Éd. E. Malfère, first published 1921 [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 René Camille Henri Berthelot (1903 - 1999), "La belle d'Argenteuil", 1968, published 1970 [ medium voice and piano ], from Chansons galantes et romanesques - 1er cahier, no. 1, Nice, Éd. G. Delrieu [sung text not yet checked]
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