by Claude Gruget (d. c1560)
Translation by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)
La Jeunesse est le quart, guidé par le...
Language: Middle French after the Middle French
Our translations: ENG
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La Jeunesse est le quart, guidé par le soleil, Regnant dix et neuf ans, poussant au mariage L'homme qui veult (vivant) colloquer son mesnage, Desireux de richesse, en force sans pareil.
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Confirmed with Œuvres complètes de P. de Ronsard, Tome VI, Paris: Librairie A. Franck, 1866, page 420.
Text Authorship:
- by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), "Jeunesse", appears in Gayetez et Epigrammes, in Sur les sept âges de l'homme, no. 4 [an adaptation] [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Middle French by Claude Gruget (d. c1560) [text unavailable]
Based on:
- a text in Spanish (Español) by Pero Mexia (1497 - 1551) [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Jack Ledru (1922 - 2013), "La Jeunesse", 2010, first performed 2011 [ vocal quartet and piano ], from Sur les Sept Âges de l'homme, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2026-07-16
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