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by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard

Bonne justice
Language: French (Français) 
C'est la chaude loi des hommes
Du raisin ils font du vin
Du charbon ils font du feu
Des baisers ils font des hommes

C'est la dure loi des hommes
Se garder intact malgré
Les guerres et la misère
Malgré les dangers de mort
C'est la douce loi des hommes
De changer l'eau en lumière
Le rêve en réalité
Et les ennemis en frères

Une loi vieille et nouvelle
Qui va se perfectionnant
Du fond du cœur de l'enfant
Jusqu'à la raison suprême.

First published in Almanach ouvrier-paysan, 1950, and then in 1951 in "Pouvoir tout dire", Éd. Raisons d'être, 1951, n°12.


Text Authorship:

  • by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard, "Bonne justice", written 1949, appears in Pouvoir tout dire, no. 12 [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 Louis Durey (1888 - 1979), "Bonne Justice", op. 74 no. 1 (1952), published 1952 [ medium voice and piano or orchestra ], from Trois Poèmes de Paul Éluard, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Berthold Goldschmidt (1903 - 1996), "Bonne Justice", 1994, published 1994 [ medium voice and piano or orchestra ], from Les Petits Adieux, no. 1, London, Boosey & Hawkes [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Alphonse Stallaert (1920 - 1995), "Bonne justice", 1976, published 1979 [ high voice and piano ], from Génocide et amour, no. 2, Amsterdam, Donemus [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2009-03-30
Line count: 16
Word count: 83

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