L'Espionne

L'Espionne (FR) The Spy. Poulenc's setting (1948, Calligrammes #1) for voice and piano of a poem from the Obus couleur de lune (Moon-colored artillery shell) section of Calligrammes (Calligrams: Poems of Peace and War, 1913 – 1916) by Apollinaire. The poem was enclosed with a letter and another poem sent to Apollinaire's girlfriend Madeleine Pagès (1894 – ?) on 1 October 1915. He had glimpsed her in passing on a train but once, 1 January 1915, while traveling from Nice to Marseille after a…