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by Alphonse Daudet (1840 - 1897)

Trois Jours de Vendange
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Je l'ai rencontrée un jour de vendange,
La jupe troussée et le pied mignon ;
Point de guimpe jaune et point de chignon :
L'air d'une bacchante et les yeux d'un ange.

Suspendue au bras d'un doux compagnon,
Je l'ai rencontrée aux champs d'Avignon,
  Un jour de vendange.

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        * *

Je l'ai rencontrée un jour de vendange :
La plaine était morne et le ciel brûlant ;
Elle marchait seule et d'un pas tremblant ;
Son regard brillait d'une flamme étrange.

Je frissonne encore en me rappelant
Comme je te vis, cher fantôme blanc,
  Un jour de vendange !

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        * *

Je l'ai rencontrée un jour de vendange,
Et j'en rêve encore presque tous les jours.
.       . .       .       . . . . . . .
Le cercueil était couvert en velours,
Le drap noir portait une double frange.

Les soeurs d'Avignon pleuraient tout autour...
La vigne avait trop de raisin ; l'Amour 
  [A]1 fait la vendange.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   R. Hahn 

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Confirmed with Alphonse Daudet, Les Amoureuses, Nouvelle Édition, Paris, 1863, pages 21-23.

1 Hahn: "Avait"

Text Authorship:

  • by Alphonse Daudet (1840 - 1897), "Trois Jours de Vendange", written 1858, appears in Les amoureuses, poèmes et fantaisies, no. 5 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Émile Durand (1830 - 1903), "Trois Jours de Vendange", published [1866] [ tenor and piano ], Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Reynaldo Hahn (1874 - 1947), "Trois Jours de Vendange", 1891, published 1893 [ medium voice and piano ], from Mélodies - 1er volume, no. 9, Paris, Éd. Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Marcel Legay (1851 - 1915), "Trois Jours de Vendange", 1886?, published [1886] [ voice and piano ], from Toute la Gamme, quinze compositions illustrées et Lettres autographes, no. 6, Paris, Éd. Brandus [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Netty Roqué , "Trois jours de Vendange", published 1912 [ voice and piano ], from Liederen, no. 2, Amsterdam : Alsbach [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "Three Days during Crush", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Ted Perry

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 26
Word count: 154

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