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La Chanson du fou
French source:
Victor Hugo
Au soleil couchant,
Toi qui vas cherchant
Fortune,
Prends garde de choir;
La terre, le soir,
Est brune.
L'océan trompeur
Couvre de vapeur
La dune.
Vois, à l'horizon,
Aucune maison
Aucune!
Maint voleur te suit,
La chose est, la nuit,
Commune.
Les dames des bois
Nous gardent parfois
Rancune.
Elles vont errer:
Crains d'en rencontrer
Quelqu'une.
Les lutins de l'air
Vont danser au clair
De lune.
Toi qui vas cherchant
Fortune,
Prends garde de choir;
La terre, le soir,
Est brune.
L'océan trompeur
Couvre de vapeur
La dune.
Vois, à l'horizon,
Aucune maison
Aucune!
Maint voleur te suit,
La chose est, la nuit,
Commune.
Les dames des bois
Nous gardent parfois
Rancune.
Elles vont errer:
Crains d'en rencontrer
Quelqu'une.
Les lutins de l'air
Vont danser au clair
De lune.
Composer
Georges Bizet
Georges Bizet (25 October 1838 – 3 June 1875), registered at birth as Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer of the Romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before…
Poet
Victor Hugo
Victor Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. He is considered one of the greatest and best-known French writers. In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry and then from his novels and his…