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by Prosper Mérimée (1803 - 1870)

Jeannot
Language: French (Français) 
Jeannot devait revenir à la ville, 
et il fallait passer, la nuit, par un cimetière. 
Or, c’était un poltron plus lâche qu’une femme ; 
il tremblait comme s’il avait eu la fièvre.

Quand il fut dans le cimetière, 
il regardait à droite et à gauche, 
et il entendit comme quelqu’un qui rongeait, 
et il pensa que c’était un brucolaque 
qui mangeait dans son tombeau.

« Hélas, hélas ! dit-il, je suis perdu. 
S’il me regarde, il voudra me manger, 
car je suis si gras : il faut que je mange 
de la terre de son tombeau ; 
autrement c’est fait de moi. »

Alors il s’est baissé pour prendre de la terre ; 
mais un chien qui rongeait un os de mouton 
a cru que Jeannot voulait le lui prendre. 
Il lui a sauté à la jambe et l’a mordu jusqu’au sang.

Confirmed with Prosper Mérimée, La Guzla, ou Choix Poésies Illyriques, recueillies dans la Dalmatie, la Bosnie, la Croatie, et l'Herzegowine, Paris, Levrault, 1827, pages 169-170. Note: this is a prose text. The line-breaks have been added arbitrarily.


Text Authorship:

  • by Prosper Mérimée (1803 - 1870), "Jeannot", appears in La Guzla [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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  • Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837) , "Вурдалак", appears in Песни западных славян (Pesni zapadnykh slavjan), no. 13 ; composed by César Antonovich Cui, Nina Vladimirovna Makarova, Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov.
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