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by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)

La pipe
Language: French (Français) 
Je suis la pipe d'un auteur ;
On voit, à contempler ma mine
D'abyssinienne ou de cafrine,
Que mon maître est un grand fumeur.

Quand il est comblé de douleur,
Je fume comme la chaumine
Où se prépare la cuisine
Pour le retour du laboureur.

J'enlace et je berce son âme
Dans le réseau mobile et bleu
Qui monte de ma bouche en feu,

Et je roule un puissant dictame
Qui charme son cœur et guérit
De ses fatigues son esprit.

Confirmed with Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal, Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1857, in Spleen et Idéal, pages 176-177. Also confirmed with Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal, Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1861, Spleen et Idéal, pages 156-167. Punctuation and capitalization follows 1857 edition. Note: this is number 77 in the first edition of Les Fleurs du mal but number 68 or 70 in subsequent editions.


Text Authorship:

  • by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), "La Pipe", appears in Les Fleurs du mal, in 1. Spleen et Idéal, no. 68, Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, first published 1857 [author's text checked 3 times 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 Léo Ferré (1916 - 1993), "La pipe", published 1963 [ voice and piano ], Éd. S.E.M.I. Méridian [sung text not yet checked]

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This text was added to the website: 2017-10-04
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Word count: 80

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