Songs
Les chemins de l'amour
(1940)
FP 106
Les chemins de l'amour
Les chemins qui vont à la merOnt gardé de notre passageDes fleurs effeuillées Et l’écho sous leurs arbresDe nos deux rires clairs.Hélas! des jours de bonheur,Radieuses joies envolées,Je vais sans retrouver tracesDans mon coeur.Chemins de mon amour,Je vous cherche toujours,Chemins perdus, vous n’êtes plusEt vos échos sont sourds.Chemins du désespoir,Chemins du souvenir,Chemins du premier jour,Divins chemins d’amour.Si je dois l’oublier un jour,La vie effaçant toute chose,Je veux dans mon coeur qu’un souvenirRepose plus fort que l’autre amour.Le souvenir du chemin,Où tremblante et toute éperdue,Un jour j’ai senti sur moi brûler tes mains.
The Paths of Love
The paths that lead to the seaHave retained from our passingThe flowers that shed their petalsAnd the echo beneath their treesOf our clear laughter.Alas! no trace of those happy days,Those radiant joys now flown,Can I find againIn my heart.Paths of my love,I search for you ceaselessly,Lost paths, you are no moreAnd your echoes are muted.Paths of despair,Paths of memory,Paths of our first day,Divine paths of love.If one day I must forget,Since life obliterates everything,I wish for my heart to remember one thing,More vivid than the other love,To remember the pathWhere trembling and quite distracted,I one day felt on me your passionate hands.
Translation © Richard Stokes, author of A French Song Companion (Oxford, 2000)
Composer
Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (F7 January 1899 – 30 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist. His compositions include mélodies, solo piano works, chamber music, choral pieces, operas, ballets, and orchestral concert music.
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Poet
Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh was a French dramatist whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1944 play Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles' classical drama, that was seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's Vichy government.
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Les chemins de l'amour
The Paths of Love
Composer
Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (F7 January 1899 – 30 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist. His compositions include mélodies, solo piano works, chamber music, choral pieces, operas, ballets, and orchestral concert music.
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Poet
Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh was a French dramatist whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1944 play Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles' classical drama, that was seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's Vichy government.
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