Des aloès et des mésanges en costume de dimanche. Les anges aux grosses ailes volent autour de la tour Eiffel. Le dirigeable RÉPUBLIQUE Le nègre jouait de la pipe Sur la Butte fumant sa flûte L'autre s'appelait Jean-Jacques Biplan soleil cloches de Pâques Ce fut une belle Liberté. On y voyait toutes les bêtes de la jungle et de la cité. Un lion et un cheval blanc et tous les deux très ressemblants. La mésange disait: "Vive la République!"
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Authorship:
- by Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963), "Portrait d'Henri Rousseau", written 1917?, appears in Embarcadères [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 Georges Auric (1899 - 1983), "Portrait d'Henri Rousseau", 1918, published 1919 [ medium voice and piano ], from Huit poèmes de Jean Cocteau, no. 8, Paris, E. Demets [sung text checked 1 time]
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- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "Portrait of Henri Rousseau", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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