Portrait d'Henri Rousseau

Des aloès et des mésanges 
en costume de dimanche. 

Les anges aux grosses ailes 
volent autour de la tour Eiffel. 

Le dirigeable RÉPUBLIQUE 
Le nègre jouait de la pipe 
Sur la Butte fumant sa flûte 
L'autre s'appelait Jean-Jacques 
Biplan soleil cloches de Pâques 
Ce fut une belle Liberté. 
On y voyait toutes les bêtes 
de la jungle et de la cité. 
Un lion et un cheval blanc 
et tous les deux très ressemblants. 

La mésange disait: "Vive la République!"

by Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Georges Auric (1899-1983) , "Portrait d'Henri Rousseau", 1918, from Huit poèmes de Jean Cocteau, no. 8.

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