Bonne d'enfant | Técla: our golden age. Pipe, Carnot, Joffre

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by Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)

Translation © by Laura Stanfield Prichard

Bonne d'enfant

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Técla: notre âge d'or. Pipe, Carnot, Joffre.
J'offre à toute personne ayant des névralgies...
Girafe. Noce. Un bonjour de Gustave.
Ave Maria de Gounod, Rosière,
Air de Mayol, Touring Club, Phonographe.
Affiche, crime en couleurs. Piano mécanique,
Nick Carter; C'est du joli!
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité.

Text Authorship:

by Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963) [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 Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Bonne d'enfant", FP. 16 (1919), published 1920 [ high voice and orchestra or piano ], from Cocardes, no. 2, Les Éditions de la Sirène [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "Bonne d'enfant", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 46

Bonne d'enfant

Language: English after the French (Français)

Técla: our golden age. Pipe, Carnot, Joffre.
I offer to everyone who has neuralgia…
Giraffe. Wedding. A hello from Gustave.
Ave Maria by Gounod, Rosière,
Air by Mayol, Touring Club, Phonograph.
Poster, crime in full color. Mechanical piano,
Nick Carter; it’s cute!
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.

Translator's notes: Many lines end with the same letters that begin the following lines: Gustave, Ave Maria. This technique is also used for the titles of the collections: Narbonne, Bonne d’enfant. Nick Carter was the main character in a popular American detective serial.

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a text in French (Français) by Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
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This text was added to the website: 2016-02-09
Line count: 8
Word count: 45