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by Paul Scarron (1610 - 1660)

Sonnet
Language: French (Français) 
Un amas confus de maisons
Des crottes dans toutes les rues
Ponts, églises, palais, prisons
Boutiques bien ou mal pourvues

Force gens noirs, blancs, roux, grisons
Des prudes, des filles perdues,
Des meurtres et des trahisons
Des gens de plume aux mains crochues

Maint poudré qui n'a pas d'argent
Maint filou qui craint le sergent
Maint fanfaron qui toujours tremble,

Pages, laquais, voleurs de nuit,
Carrosses, chevaux et grand bruit
Voilà Paris que vous en semble ?

Text Authorship:

  • by Paul Scarron (1610 - 1660), "Sonnet", written 1654?, first published 1654 [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 Jean-Paul Mariage (1881 - 1966), "Sonnet", op. 17 (1909), published 1910 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. Édouard Jouve [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-11-22
Line count: 14
Word count: 76

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