by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
Cette lettre n'est pas une lettre
Language: French (Français)
Cette lettre n'est pas une lettre ; ce n'est qu'un mot, mais ce mot, tout court qu’il est, mon doux ange, renferme un baiser long comme la vie, et un amour long comme l’éternité.
From a letter to Juliette Drouet dated January 1, 1857. This is a prose text; we have added line-breaks arbitrarily.
Text Authorship:
- by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), written 1857 [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 Renaud Gagneux (b. 1947), "Cette lettre n'est pas une lettre", 1990?, published 1990 [ soprano and piano ], from Quatre mots pour Juliette, Cycle de 4 mélodies sur des billets de V. Hugo à Juliette Drouet, no. 1, Éd. Durand [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Léa Pasquel
This text was added to the website: 2020-10-04
Line count: 5
Word count: 33