Nous avons fait la nuit

Nous avons fait la nuit (FR LITERAL) We Have Made the Night, (or, idiomatic) We Have Turned Out the Light. Poulenc's setting (1937, Tel jour telle nuit #9) for voice and piano of the fifth (final) poem by in Facile (Easy, 1935) by Eluard. Poulenc writes: » I wrote this song in the sincerest of emotions. I hope others can sense it. The piano coda is essential. It is difficult to convince performers that only calm can give intensity to a poem about love. Everything else is superfluous.« « Bernac…