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De ce gaillard entretien
chanson
Poem: Ludovic Halévy (1834–1908), cousin of Bizet's wife Geneviève.
EmmaCarolineDe ce gaillard entretienLa Reine ne connait rien.Elle l'eût pris pour un outrage.Emma, CarolineCar en ce siècle ignorantLe beau sexe était sauvageIl ne l'est plus maintenant.Ah! qu'elle est drôleL'aventure du roi Cancan !Ah! qu'elle est drôleL'aventure du roi Candaule !
Composition: before 9-4-1873. Bizet contributed the song for a play by Halévy and his regular partner Henri Meilhac, Le Roi Candaule. The play was performed but appears not to have been published. Eugène Diaz’s Le Roi Candaule, with a libretto by Carré, was played at the Théâtre-Lyrique on 9-6-1865, and Alfred Bruneau's 'comédie lyrique' Le Roi Candaule was played there on 1-12-1920.
Autograph score: Private collection. 12-stave paper, 3 p. Photocopy at US-NYp, Curtiss papers (JPB 93-5 series 6, f. 254).
- 9-4-1873, Théâtre du Palais Royal
- Lacombe 613