© by Maurice Carême (1899 - 1978)
Une puce, dans sa voiture
Language: French (Français)
Our translations: ENG
Une puce, dans sa voiture [ ... ]
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.Text Authorship:
- by Maurice Carême (1899 - 1978), "La Puce et l'éléphant", written 1959, appears in La Cage aux Grillons, Paris, Éd. Bourrelier, first published 1959, copyright © [author's text not yet checked 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), "Quelle aventure !", FP 178 no. 2 (1960), published 1960 [ high voice and piano or orchestra ], from La Courte Paille, no. 2, Éd. Max Eschig [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "What an Adventure! The Flea and the Elephant", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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