Rosemonde | Spencer's wife asked him

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by Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944)

Translation © by Faith J. Cormier

Rosemonde

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG GER

Qu'as-tu vu dans ton exil?
Disait à Spencer sa femme,
à Rome, à Vienne,
à Pergame, à Calcutta? Rien! fit-il
Veux-tu découvrir le monde?
Ferme tes yeux, Rosemonde.

Text Authorship:

by Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944), 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), "Rosemonde", H. 148 no. 5 (1941), published 1947 [ high voice and piano ], from Petit cours de morale, no. 5, Paris, Éd. Salabert [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "Rosemonde", copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Rosemonde", copyright © 2006, (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.
Line count: 6
Word count: 28

Rosemonde

Language: English after the French (Français)

 Spencer's wife asked him 
 what he had seen during his exile 
 in Rome, Vienna, Pergamo and Calcutta. 
 "Nothing," he replied.
 If you want to see the world,
 close your eyes, Rosemonde.

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944), written 1921, appears in Suzanne et le pacifique, Éd. Émile Paul, first published 1921
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 6
Word count: 31