Le temps a laissé son manteau
De vent de froidure et de pluie,
[Et]1 s'est vêtu de broderie,
De soleil [luisant]2 clair et beau.

Il n'y a bête, ni oiseau,
Qu'en son jargon ne chante ou crie :
« Le temps a laissé son manteau
De vent de froidure et de pluie.»

Rivière, fontaine et ruisseau
Portent en livrée jolie
Gouttes d'argent d'orfèvrerie ;
Chacun s'habille de nouveau !

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¹ Rostand: "Il"
² Amiet: "riant"
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Le temps a laissié son manteau
De vent de froidure et de pluye
Et s'est vestu de broderye,
De soleil raiant, cler et beau.

Il n'y a beste ne oisieau
Qui en son jargon ne chante ou crye.
Le temps a laissié son manteau,
De vent de froidure et de pluye.

Rivière, fontaine et ruisseau
Portent en livrée jolye
Goultes d'argent d'orfaverie
Chascun s'abille de nouveau.

Text Authorship:

• by Charles, Duc d'Orléans (1394 - 1465), "Rondel LXIII" [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 Ella Georgiyevna Adayevskaya (1846 - 1926), "Le temps a laissé son manteau", 1887-8, published 1900 [ voice and piano ], from Trois rondeaux, no. 2, Milan : Ricordi [sung text not yet checked]
• by Paul Amiet (1883 - 1942), "Le temps a laissé son manteau", published [1913] [ high voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. Maurice Senart [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Georges Antoine (1892 - 1918), "Rondel", op. 4 no. 2a [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray (1840 - 1910), "Rondel", published 1906 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Alfred Cagé , "Rondel", published [1911] [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. E. Demets [sung text not yet checked]
• by Pierre Cettier (b. 1874), "Le temps a laissé son manteau", published 1923 [ high voice and piano ], from Deux Mélodies, chant et piano, no. 2, Éditions F. Durdilly, Ch. Hayet, successeur [sung text not yet checked]
• by Auguste Chérion (1864 - 1904), "Rondel", <<1888 [ voice and piano ], from Deux mélodies, no. 2, Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Henri Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
• by Charles Colas , "Le temps a laissé son manteau", published 1927 [ high voice and piano ], from Chansons et rondeaux choisis de Charles d'Orléans 2ème cahier, no. 2, Paris, Édition B. Roudanez [sung text not yet checked]
• by Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "Le temps a laissé son manteau", L. 115/(102) no. 1 (1904) [ voice and piano ], from Trois Chansons de France, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Marie-Joseph-Alexandre Déodat de Séverac (1872 - 1921), "Renouveau", 1897 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Charlotte Devéria, née Thomas (1856 - 1885), "Au Printemps", <<1877 [ medium voice and piano ], from 16 Mélodies pour chant avec accompagnement de piano, no. 16 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Bernard van Dieren (1887 - 1936), "Rondel", published 1928 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by John Herbert Foulds (1880 - 1939), "Renouveau", op. 15 (Two Songs) no. 2 [ tenor and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Hercule Gilles de Fontenailles (1858 - 1922), "Le Temps a laissé son manteau", published 1911 [ voice and piano ], from Quatre chansons de Charles d'Orléans, no. 4, Éd. Rouart, Lerolle & Cie [sung text not yet checked]
• by Benjamin Louis Paul Godard (1849 - 1895), "Chanson d'avril", op. 102 no. 4, from Chansons de Mois, no. 4, Paris, Choudens [sung text not yet checked]
• by Gustave Léon Huberti (1843 - 1910), "Le renouveau" [ high voice and piano ], from Huit mélodies, no. 7, Bruxelles: Schott Frères, also set in Dutch (Nederlands), also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Wilhelm Killmayer (1927 - 2017), "Le temps a laissié son manteau", 1966, first performed 1987 [ SSSAAA chorus a cappella ], from Sept Rondeaux nach französischen Gedichten von Charles d'Orléans, no. 4, Mainz, Schott [sung text not yet checked]
• by Charles Koechlin (1867 - 1950), "Le renouveau", op. 1 (5 rondels [in fact, 6]) no. 1 (1890-4), published [1896] [ SATB chorus and piano ad libitum ], Éd. E. Baudoux & Cie. [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Alexander Liebermann (b. 1989), "Rondeau", op. 3 no. 2, published 2013 [ soprano and piano or orchestra ], from Rondeaux pour soprano et piano, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Fernand Masson (d. 1942), "Le temps a laissié son manteau", 1912, published 1913 [ medium voice and piano ], from Six chansons sur des poèmes de Charles d'Orléans, no. 5, Édition Carl Selva [sung text not yet checked]
• by Étienne Millot , "Le Temps a laissé son manteau", published 1911 [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. Durand & Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
• by Edmond Missa (1861 - 1910), as Paul Aliprandi, "Le printemps" [ medium voice and piano ], from Le Printemps-L'été, no. 1, Paris, Édition G. Billaudot [sung text not yet checked]
• by Joseph Morpain (1873 - 1961), "Rondel", published 1902 [ voice and piano ], in the supplement to the journal Le Ménestrel of June 15th, 1902, Éd. Heugel & Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
• by François Pantillon (b. 1928), "Le temps a laissé son manteau, chascun s’abille de nouveau", from 3 rondeaux, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Charles Poisot (1822 - 1904), "Rondel de Charles, Duc d'Orléans", published [1868] [ soprano or vocal duet with piano ], Paris, Édition T. Michaelis [sung text not yet checked]
• by Alexis Jean Hubert Rostand (1844 - 1919), as Jean Hubert, "Le Renouveau", <<1904 [ high voice and piano ], from Les Saisons et les Heures, no. 8, Éd. Heugel & Cie. [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Charles Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921), "Temps nouveau", 1921, published 1921 [ voice and piano ], from Vieilles chansons, no. 1, Paris, Durand [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Charles Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921), "Primavera" [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Eugène Sauzay (1809 - 1901), "Le Printemps", op. 11 no. 3, published [1855] [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Georges Taconet (1889 - 1962), "Rondel de Charles d'Orléans", op. 38 [ high voice and piano ], Éd. E. Fromont [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

• Also set in Dutch (Nederlands), a translation by Emmanuel Hiel (1834 - 1899) ; composed by Gustave Léon Huberti.
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• Also set in English, a translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882) , "The return of Spring", appears in The Poets and Poems of Europe, first published 1845 [an adaptation] ; composed by Francesco Berger, John Herbert Foulds.
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• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Emmanuel Hiel (1834 - 1899) ; composed by Gustave Léon Huberti.
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