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by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)

Le rebelle
Language: French (Français) 
Un Ange furieux fond du ciel comme un aigle,
Du mécréant saisit à plein poing les cheveux,
Et dit, le secouant : " Tu connaîtras la règle !
(Car je suis ton bon Ange, entends-tu?) Je le veux !

Sache qu'il faut aimer, sans faire la grimace,
Le pauvre, le méchant, le tortu, l'hébété,
Pour que tu puisse faire à Jésus, quand il passe,
Un tapis triomphal avec ta charité.

Tel est l'Amour ! Avant que ton cœur ne se blase,
A la gloire de Dieu rallume ton extase ;
C'est la Volupté vraie aux durables appas ! "

Et l'Ange, châtiant autant, ma foi ! qu'il aime,
De ses poings de géant torture l'anathème ;
Mais le damné répond toujours : " Je ne veux pas ! "

Confirmed with Charles Baudelaire, Œuvres complètes de Charles Baudelaire, vol. I : Les Fleurs du mal, Paris: Michel Lévy frères, 1868, in Spleen et Idéal, page 229.

First published by Alphonse Lemerre in Le Parnasse contemporain : receuil de vers nouveaux, premier receuil, 1866; also appears under Spleen et Idéal as number 95 in the 1868 edition of Les Fleurs du mal.


Text Authorship:

  • by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), "Le Rebelle", appears in Les Fleurs du mal, in 1. Spleen et Idéal, no. 95, Paris(?), Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1866 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Huib Emmer (b. 1951), "Le rebelle", published 1976 [ soprano, oboe, piano, clarinets, saxophone, trombone, 2 horns, 2 violins, viola, 2 cellos, 2 contrabasses, and percussion (4 players) ], Amsterdam, Donemus [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Maurice Rollinat (1846 - 1903), "Le Rebelle" [ voice and piano ], from Six Mélodies sur des poésies de Baudelaire, no. 6, Paris, Éd. Heugel [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Therese Albertine Luise von Jacob (1797 - 1870) ; composed by Karlheinz Stockhausen.
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This text was added to the website: 2003-11-06
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