by Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944)
Dans Londres, la grand ville
Language: French (Français)
Dans Londres, la grand ville il est un être plus seul qu'un naufragé dans son île et qu'un mort dans un linceul Grand badaud petit rentier Jeanne voilà son métier.
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Text Authorship:
- by Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944), no title, written 1921, appears in Suzanne et le pacifique, Éd. Émile Paul, first published 1921 [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 Arthur Honegger (1892 - 1955), "Jeanne", H. 148 no. 1 (1941), published 1947 [ medium voice and piano ], from Petit cours de morale, no. 1, Paris, Éd. Salabert [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "Jeanne", copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Jeanne", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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