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by Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (1802 - 1870)

En me promenant ce soir au rivage
Language: French (Français) 
Don Juan, chantant au bas de la fenêtre
 En me promenant ce soir au rivage,
 Où pendant une heure à vous j’ai rêvé,
 J’ai laissé tomber mon cœur sur la plage,
 Vous veniez [ensuite et]1 l’avez trouvé.

 Dites-moi comment finir cette affaire ?
 Les procès sont longs, les juges vendus ;
 Je perdrai ma cause, et pourtant, que faire ?
 Vous avez deux cœurs, et je n’en ai plus.

 [Mais, dès qu'on]2 s'entend, bientôt tout s’arrange,
 Et souvent [le mal nous conduit]3 au bien.
 [De nos deux cœurs entre eux faisons échange,
 Rendez-moi] le vôtre et gardez le mien.

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•   N. Reber 

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Confirmed with Œuvres de Alex. Dumas, Tome second, Bruxelles: Meline, Cans et Compagnie: 1838, page 563.

1 Reber: "après, vous"
2 Reber: "Mais quand on"
3 Reber: "le mal conduit"
4 Reber: "De nos cœurs entr'eux faisons un échange,/ Donnez-moi"

Text Authorship:

  • by Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (1802 - 1870), no title, written 1835, appears in Don Juan de Marana ou la chute d'un ange, mystère en cinq actes, Paris, Éd. Marchant, éditeur du magasin théâtral, first published 1836 [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 Marcel Fichefet (1899 - 1991), "Madrigal", op. 1a (<<1922) [ medium voice and piano ], from Premières mélodies, no. 1, Paris, Édition Maurice Senart [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Jesus de Monasterio (1836 - 1903), "L'Échange", 1861, published 1872? [ high voice and piano ], Madrid, Édition A. Romero, in the collection Album de Canto [sung text not yet checked]
  • by ?, Duchesse de Mouchy , "L'échange", published 1840? [ voice and piano ], Paris : Chabal [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Napoléon-Henri Reber (1807 - 1880), "L'échange", published [1850] [ baritone and piano ], Éditions Richault [sung text checked 1 time]

Set in a modified version by Guy d'Arvor, as Albert Voisin, Vincenzo Capecelatro, Raymond Chanoine Davranches.

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This text was added to the website: 2018-09-04
Line count: 13
Word count: 99

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