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by François Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778), as Voltaire

Souvent un air de vérité
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Souvent un air de vérité
Se mêle au plus grossier mensonge.
Cette nuit dans l'erreur d'un songe,
Au rang des rois j'étais monté.
Je vous aimais alors et j'osais vous le dire.
Les dieux à mon réveil ne m'ont pas tout ôté :
Je n'ai perdu que mon empire.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   G. Tailleferre 

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Text Authorship:

  • by François Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778), as Voltaire, "Songe de M. de Voltaire à la princesse royale de Prusse au mois de septembre 1743 lorsqu'il était à Berlin" [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 Germaine Tailleferre (1892 - 1983), "Souvent un air de vérité", op. 41 no. 2 (1929) [ voice and piano ], from Six chansons françaises, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 7
Word count: 49

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