L’océan, comme émeraude,
a certes quelques défauts;
mais la baigneuse nigaude
aime mieux les bijoux faux.

Text Authorship:

• by Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963), "Trouville", written 1922, appears in Vocabulaire, in Le Mirliton d'Irène, no. 5, Paris, Éd. de la Sirène, first published 1922 [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 Henri Cliquet-Pleyel (1894 - 1963), "Trouville", 1922, published 1925 [ medium voice and piano ], from Le Mirliton d'Irène, no. 5, Paris, Éd. B. Roudanez [sung text not yet checked]
• by Robert Desprechins , "Trouville", op. 24 no. 5 (1944), published 1948 [ medium voice and piano ], from Le Mirliton d'Irène, no. 5, Edition Cnudde, Gand (Belgique) [sung text checked 1 time]

The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:

• by Vincent Bouchot (b. 1966), "Le Mirliton d'Irène", 2023 [ medium voice and piano ]
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