by Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
La Chèvre
Language: French (Français)
Personne ne lit la feuille du Journal officiel affichée au mur de la mairie. Si, la chèvre. Elle se dresse sur ses pattes de derrière, appuie celles de devant au bas de l’affiche, remue ses cornes et sa barbe, et agite la tête de droite et de gauche, comme une vieille dame qui lit. Sa lecture finie, ce papier sentant bon la colle fraîche, la chèvre le mange. [Tout ne se perd pas dans]1 la commune.
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Confirmed with Jules Renard, Histoires naturelles, Paris, Modern-Bibliothèque, 1894, page 55. Note: this is a prose text. Line breaks have been added arbitrarily.
1 Aboulker: "Rien ne se perd dans"Text Authorship:
- by Jules Renard (1864 - 1910), "La Chèvre", appears in Histoires naturelles [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 Isabelle Aboulker (b. 1938), "La Chèvre", published 2011 [ medium voice and piano ], from Petites histoires naturelles, no. 16, Paris, Éd. Henry Lemoine [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Bruno Rossignol (b. 1958), "La Chèvre", published 2010 [ medium voice and piano ], from Nouvelles Histoires naturelles, no. 4, Éd. Delatour France [sung text not yet checked]
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