Placet futile

Placet futile (FR) Futile Petition. Debussy's setting (Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé #2) for voice and piano of a poem by Mallarmé. Mallarmé describes this poem as a »Louis XV [1710–1774] sonnet, very 1762« and an »irregular sonnet.« The earliest version, called simply »Placet,« was written in 1862, inspired by an excursion to Fontainebleau. The poem was published in the revue Papillon on 25 February 1862. The poem was revised in 1887. The last three-line group originally read »nommez nous…