Chansons madécasses

Chansons madécasses (FR) Songs of Madagascar. Twelve prose-poems (1787) by Evariste Parny. The book's full title is »Chansons madécasses traduites en français suivies de poésies fugitives« (Madegascan folksongs, translated into French, followed by miscellaneous poems). Parny pretended to have gathered and translated several native Madagascar folksongs, but despite his birth on the isle of Réunion, in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar, he never actually set foot on the big island, nor did he speak…