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by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)

J'étais tout à l'heure seul dans ta chambre
Language: French (Français) 
J'étais tout à l'heure seul dans ta chambre, 
ma bien-aimée et sais-tu ce que je viens de faire ? 
J’ai baisé tes souliers qui étaient là en les priant 
de ne jamais te conduire que du côté de mon amour.

From a letter to Juliette Drouet dated May 27, 1860.This is a prose text; we have added line-breaks arbitrarily.


Text Authorship:

  • by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), written 1860 [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 Renaud Gagneux (b. 1947), "J'étais tout à l'heure seul dans ta chambre", 1990?, published 1990 [ soprano and piano ], from Quatre mots pour Juliette, Cycle de 4 mélodies sur des billets de V. Hugo à Juliette Drouet, no. 3, Éd. Durand [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Léa Pasquel

This text was added to the website: 2020-10-04
Line count: 4
Word count: 39

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