by Nicolas-Sébastien Roch (1740 - 1794), as Nicolas Chamfort
Le magistrat suisse
Language: French (Français)
Our translations: ENG
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L'esprit des lois de Montesquieu et La pucelle de Voltaire furent interdits en Suisse. Un magistrat de Berne fit rechercher ces deux ouvrages, puis écrivit au Sénat: Nous n'avons trouvé dans le canton ni Esprit ni Pucelle.
Text Authorship:
- by Nicolas-Sébastien Roch (1740 - 1794), as Nicolas Chamfort [an adaptation] [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 Jean Françaix (1912 - 1997), "Le magistrat suisse", 1948, published 1951 [ baritone and piano ], from Huit anecdotes de Chamfort, no. 6, Éd. Max Eschig [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "The Swiss magistrate ", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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