Les Ingénus

Les Ingénus (FR) The Ingenuous. Debussy's setting (1904, Fêtes galantes, second series, #1) for voice and piano of the seventh poem from Fêtes galantes (1869) by Verlaine. The poem was first published in L'Artiste on 1 July 1868, in a group of poems titled »Nouvelles Fêtes galantes.« Verlaine is referring to the novel »L'Ingénu« (1767) by Voltaire (1694–1778), as well as to the writings of the Goncourt brothers (Edmond [1822–1896], and Jules [1830–1870]) about the 18th century: ». . . the…