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by Arthur Justin Léon Leclère (1874 - 1966), as Tristan Klingsor

La belle d'Argenteuil
Language: French (Français) 
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.

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]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2014-06-12
Line count: 18
Word count: 93

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