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by Nicolas-Sébastien Roch (1740 - 1794), as Nicolas Chamfort
Translation Emily Ezust

La société est composée de deux grandes...
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  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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Text 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"


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2011-06-08
Line count: 3
Word count: 25

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.

Text Authorship:

  • Translation from French (Français) to English by Emily Ezust

Based on:

  • a text in French (Français) by Nicolas-Sébastien Roch (1740 - 1794), as Nicolas Chamfort, no title
    • Go to the text page.

 

This text was added to the website: 2011-06-10
Line count: 3
Word count: 22

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