Jeanne
French source:
Jean Giraudoux
Il est un être plus seul
Qu'un naufragé dans son île
Et qu'un mort dans un linceul
Grand badaud petit rentier
Jeanne voilà son métier.
Jeanne
English translation ©
Richard Stokes
There is a creature more alone
Than a castaway on his island
And a dead man in his shroud.
A great idler, with a life of leisure.
That, Jeanne, is his métier.
Translation © Richard Stokes, from A French Song Companion (Oxford, 2000)
Jeanne
French source:
Jean Giraudoux
Jeanne
English source:
Richard Stokes
Dans Londres, la grand ville
In London, that great city,
Il est un être plus seul
There is a creature more alone
Qu'un naufragé dans son île
Than a castaway on his island
Et qu'un mort dans un linceul
And a dead man in his shroud.
Grand badaud petit rentier
A great idler, with a life of leisure.
Jeanne voilà son métier.
That, Jeanne, is his métier.
Composer
Arthur Honegger
Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. Read more here.
