Amoureuses

Amoureuses (FR) Lovers. Poulencs' setting (1935, Cinq Poèmes de Paul Eluard #5) for voice and piano of the third poem from A toute épreuve (Total Resistance, 1930) by Eluard. The poem first appeared in La Révolution surréaliste on 15 December 1929. Subsequently it was included in La Vie immédiate (Life Here-and-Now, 1932). André Breton (1896 – 1966) writes of this poem: »This sort of incandescent love quickly dis-incarnates itself.« Eluard speaks of the beauty of all girls, before his final…