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by Max Jacob (1876 - 1944)

Vous n'écrivez plus?
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
- M'as-tu connu marchand d'journaux
à Barbès et sous le Métro
Pour insister vers l'Institut
il me faudrait de la vertu,
mes romans n'ont ni rang ni ronds
et je n'ai pas de caractère.

- M'as-tu connu marchand d'marrons
au coin de la rue Coquillère?
tablier rendu, l'autre est vert.

- M'as-tu connu marchand d'tickets
balayeur de W.-C.
je le dis sans fiel ni malice
aide à la foire au Pain d'Épice
défenseur au juge de Paix
officier, comme on dit office
au Richelieu et à la Paix.

Text Authorship:

  • by Max Jacob (1876 - 1944), "Vous n'écrivez plus ?", written 1930, appears in Rivage, recueilli dans Ballades, Paris, Édition "Les Cahiers libres", first published 1931 [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), "Vous n'écrivez plus?", FP 157 no. 2 (1954), published 1954 [ medium voice and piano ], from Parisiana, no. 2, Éd. Salabert [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "Don’t you write anymore?", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 86

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