Monsieur,
 Merci pour le bonhomme qui joue avec des balles. Il
 est tellement drôle qu'il me fait rire, c'est effrayant.

   Béatrice

Note: Béatrice refers to Béatrice Daniel Lesur, daughter of the composer Daniel-Lesur.

Text Authorship:

• by Béatrice Daniel-Lesur  [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 Jacques de Menasce (1905 - 1960), "Lettre de Béatrice", 1953, published 1954 [ high voice and piano ], from Deux lettres d'Enfants (pour remercier d'un envoi de jouets), no. 1, Paris, Éd. Durand [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "Béatrice's letter", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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