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by Max Jacob (1876 - 1944)

Voilá qui j'espère effraie
Language: French (Français) 
Voilá qui j'espère effraie:
Mademoiselle Malvina
ne quitte plus son éventail
depuis qu'elle est morte.
Son gant gris perle est étoilé d'or...
Elle se tirebouchonne
comme une valse tzigane;
elle vient mourir d'amour
à ta porte près du grès
où l'on met les cannes...
Disons qu'elle est morte du diabéte,
morte du gros parfum qui lui penchait le cou.
Oh! l'honnête animal si chaste et si peu fou!

Moins gourmet que gourmande,
elle était de sang lourd,
agrégée ès lettres et chargée de cours.
C'était en chapeau haut
qu'on lui faisait la cour.
Or, on me l'aurait eue
qu'à la methode hussarde!...
Malvine, oh Fantôme, que Dieu te garde!

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Text Authorship:

  • by Max Jacob (1876 - 1944), "Personnages du Bal Masqué", written 1920, appears in Le Laboratoire central, Paris, Éd. Au Sans Pareil, 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 Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Malvina", FP 60 no. 3 (1932), first performed 1932 [ baritone and chamber orchestra ], from Le bal masqué: Cantate Profane, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 21
Word count: 109

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