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by Henri Francois-Joseph de Régnier (1864 - 1936)

Les grands vents venus d'outremer
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG GER SAN
Les grands vents venus d'outre-mer
Passent par la Ville, l'hiver,
Comme des étrangers amers.

Ils se concertent, graves et pâles
Sur les places, et leurs sandales
Ensablent le marbre des dalles.

Comme de crosses à leurs mains fortes,
Ils heurtent l'auvent et la porte
Derrière qui l'horloge est morte ;

Et les adolescents amers
S'en vont avec eux vers la Mer!

Confirmed with Henri de Régnier, Tel qu’en songe, Librairie de l’Art Indépendant, Paris, 1892. Note: Ravel's title leaves out the hyphen in the last word.


Text Authorship:

  • by Henri Francois-Joseph de Régnier (1864 - 1936), "Les grands vents venus d'outre-mer", written 1892, appears in Tel qu'en songe, in 4. Quelqu'un songe de soir et d'espoir, no. 2, Paris, Éd. Librairie de l'Art Indépendant, first published 1892 [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 Robert Francès (1919 - 2012), "Les grands vents venus d'outre-mer", published 2002 [ high voice and piano ], from Paysages musicaux, no. 1, Paris, Éditions Alphonse Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Jacques Guillaume de Sauville de la Presle (1888 - 1969), "Les grands vents venus d'outremer", published 1910 [ voice and piano ], Éd. Rouart, Lerolle [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937), "Les grands vents venus d'outremer", M. 48 (1906), published 1907 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "The great gusts coming from overseas", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Holger Christian Teipel-Jahr) , "Die großen Winde, aus Übersee gekommen", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • SAN Sanskrit (संस्कृतम्) (Holger Christian Teipel-Jahr) , copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Holger Christian Teipel-Jahr

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 11
Word count: 60

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