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Je n'ai pas oublié, voisine de la ville, Notre blanche maison, petite mais tranquille, Sa Pomone de plâtre et sa vieille Vénus Dans un bosquet chétif cachant leurs membres nus ; — Et le soleil, le soir, ruisselant et superbe, Qui, derrière la vitre où se brisait sa gerbe, Semblait, grand œil ouvert dans le ciel curieux, Contempler nos dîners longs et silencieux, [Et versait]1 largement ses beaux reflets de cierge Sur la nappe frugale et les rideaux de serge.
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal, Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1857, in Spleen et Idéal, pages 162-163. Note: this was number 70 under Spleen et Idéal in the first edition of Les Fleurs du mal but number 99 or 123 under Tableaux parisiens in subsequent editions.
1 1861 and 1868 editions: "Répandant"Authorship:
- by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), no title, appears in Les Fleurs du mal, in 2. Tableaux parisiens, no. 99, appears in Les Fleurs du mal, in 1. Spleen et Idéal, no. 70, Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, first published 1857 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Gérard Bertouille (1898 - 1981), "Je n'ai pas oublié", 1939 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], from Cinq poèmes de Baudelaire, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Pierre Capdevielle (1906 - 1969), "Je n'ai pas oublié", 1931 [ medium voice and piano ], from Quatre mélodies, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Albert Huybrechts (1899 - 1938), "Ressouvenance" [ high voice and piano ], Bruxelles, Édition CeBeDem [sung text not yet checked]
- by Georges Lonque (1900 - 1967), "Je n'ai pas oublié", op. 2 (1924) [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Poom Andrew Pipatjarasgit) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Juan Henríquez Concepción) , "Yo no he olvidado", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this text: Juan Henríquez Concepción , Poom Andrew Pipatjarasgit [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2008-09-03
Line count: 10
Word count: 80
Yo no he olvidado, cerca de la ciudad, Nuestra blanca morada, pequeña pero tranquila; Su Pomona de yeso y su vieja Venus En un bosquecillo insignificante ocultando sus miembros desnudos, Y el sol, en la tarde, refulgente y soberbio, Que detrás del cristal en que se quebraba el haz de luz, Parecía, ojo inmenso abierto en el cielo curioso, Contemplar nuestras cenas largas y silenciosas, Derramando generosamente sus bellos reflejos de cirio Sobre el mantel frugal y las cortinas de sarga.
Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to Spanish (Español) copyright © 2008 by Juan Henríquez Concepción, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), no title, appears in Les Fleurs du mal, in 2. Tableaux parisiens, no. 99, appears in Les Fleurs du mal, in 1. Spleen et Idéal, no. 70, Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, first published 1857
This text was added to the website: 2008-09-03
Line count: 10
Word count: 81