Voyage à Paris

Voyage à Paris (FR) Trip to Paris. Poulenc's setting (1940, Banalités #4) for voice and piano of a poem by Apollinaire. The poem forms the first section of a series of short verses called Banalités, first published in the revue Lacerba on 15 April 1914. The original version of the poem, however, dates to at least 1906, and comes from an operetta Apollinaire co-wrote with André Salmon (1881 – 1969) called Le Marchand d'anchois (The Anchovy Seller, [99% by Apollinaire]). Jonas, a Norwegian…