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by Catulle Mendès (1841 - 1909)

La gavotte
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Elle est douairière et puis faunesse,
Vieille qui n’a pas froid aux yeux;

Et naguère encore les vieux 
Y redansèrent leur jeunesse.

Ses cheveux sont de neige, oui,
Mais cette perruque qui tremble
Comme de blancs papillons, semble
Un pommier frais épanoui;

Et l’on ne sait, quand la secoue
Le rythme antique et puéril,
Si c’est de décembre où d’avril
Qu’elle poudre l’oeil et la joue.

Text Authorship:

  • by Catulle Mendès (1841 - 1909), "La gavotte", written 1895, appears in La Grive des Vignes, in 4. Dédicaces, Ballet ancien, no. 2, Paris, Éd. Librairie Charpentier, first published 1895 [author's text not yet checked 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 Louis-Charles-Bonaventure-Alfred Bruneau (1857 - 1934), "La gavotte", published [1895] [medium voice and piano], from Six chansons à danser, no. 2, Paris, Éd. Choudens [ sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , "The gavotte", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Garrett Medlock [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2019-01-12
Line count: 12
Word count: 66

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