by Nicolas-Sébastien Roch (1740 - 1794), as Nicolas Chamfort
Translation Emily Ezust
La société est composée de deux grandes...
Language: French (Français)
Available translation(s): ENG
La société est composée de deux grandes classes : ceux qui ont plus de dîners que d'appétit et ceux qui ont plus d'appétit que de dîners.
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Authorship
- by Nicolas-Sébastien Roch (1740 - 1794), as Nicolas Chamfort, no title [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 Isabelle Aboulker (b. 1938), "La société" [medium voice and piano], from Vocales 2000, hommage à Nicola Vaccaj, no. 2 [ sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Society"
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This text was added to the website: 2011-06-08
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Word count: 26
Society
Language: English after the French (Français)
Society is composed of two large classes: Those who have more suppers than appetite And those who have more appetite than suppers.
Authorship
- Translation from French (Français) to English by Emily Ezust
- a text in French (Français) by Nicolas-Sébastien Roch (1740 - 1794), as Nicolas Chamfort, no title
This text was added to the website: 2011-06-10
Line count: 3
Word count: 22