On a New Night | Woman I've lived with

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by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard

Translation © by Grant Hicks

Par une nuit nouvelle

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Femme avec laquelle j'ai vécu
Femme avec laquelle je vis
Femme avec laquelle je vivrai
Toujours la même
Il te faut un manteau rouge
Des gants rouges un masque rouge
[Et]¹ des bas noirs
Des raisons des preuves
De te voir toute nue
Nudité pure ô parure parée

Seins ô mon cœur

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• F. Poulenc

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Confirmed with Paul Éluard, Œuvres complètes, Vol. 1, Paris: Gallimard, 1968, Page 366.

Submitter(s) ¹ Poulenc: "Il te faut"

Text Authorship:

by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard, "Par une nuit nouvelle", appears in La vie immédiate [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 Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Par une nuit nouvelle", FP. 81 no. 3 [ chorus ], from Sept chansons, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]

The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:

by Berthold Goldschmidt (1903 - 1996), "Par une nuit nouvelle", 1994, published 1994 [ medium voice and piano or orchestra ], from Les Petits Adieux, no. 3, London, Boosey & Hawkes
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Grant Hicks) , "On a New Night", copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2005-01-12
Line count: 11
Word count: 53

On a New Night

Language: English after the French (Français)

Woman I've lived with 
Woman I live with 
Woman I will live with 
Always the same 
You should have a red cloak
Red gloves a red mask
[And]¹ black stockings 
Reasons proofs
To see you all nude 
Pure nudity O ready finery

Breasts O my heart

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¹ Poulenc: "You should have"

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard, "Par une nuit nouvelle", appears in La vie immédiate
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This text was added to the website: 2025-12-16
Line count: 11
Word count: 47