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Les Roses

Les Roses (FR) The Roses. Debussy's setting (c. 1881) for voice and piano of the 15th poem by Banville from Les Cariatides, Livre Trosième — Les Caprices, en dixains à la manière de Clément Marot, (Cariatids, Book III – Caprices in Dixains in the Style of Clement Marot, [1839 / 42]). Debussy changes the first line from »Lorsque le ciel de saphire est en feu« (When the sapphire sky is on fire) to »Lorsque le ciel de saphire est de feu« (When the sapphire sky is of fire) and the eighth line from…

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