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C. Poulenc's setting (1943, Deux Poèmes de Louis Aragon #1) for voice and piano of the ninth poem from Les Yeux d'Elsa (Elsa's Eyes, 1942) by Aragon. The poem was first published in La Suisse contemporaine in September 1941. The title is an abbreviation for Cé, a town on the Loire River, close to Angers. The Ponts-de-Cé, the four »Caesar bridges,« were the scene of repeated conflicts from Roman times on. In 51 BC, the Gauls withdrew in defeat before the Roman legions. During the »dark ages,«…