Heureux, dit-on, le peuple florissant
Sur qui ces biens coulent en abondance !
    Plus heureux le peuple innocent
Qui dans le Dieu du ciel a mis sa confiance !

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Confirmed with Racine's Esther, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1886, page 95.

Text Authorship:

• by Jean Racine (1639 - 1699), no title, appears in Esther, Act II, Scene 9 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Wilhelm Willige ; composed by Wilhelm Killmayer.
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