Léo Ferré : Le Pont Mirabeau (Apollinaire)

                        

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Extrait du DVD "Léo Ferré chante les poètes" (Théâtre libertaire de Paris, 1986) Réalisation : Guy Job. En vente sur notre site leo-ferre.com : http://bit.ly/2fZXRBY Chanson publiée en 1953 sur l'album "Paris canaille" (https://leo-ferre.com/paris-canaille) Paroles : Guillaume Apollinaire Musique : Léo Ferré Arrangements : Jean Cardon

“Le Pont Mirabeau” by Guillaume Apollinaire

In 1912, the poet Guillaume Apollinaire published “Le Pont Mirabeau” in the journal Les Soirées de Paris; a year later the poem appeared in his collection Alcools. Even in Apollinaire’s lifetime, the melancholy piece—which uses the image of the ornate bridge spanning the flowing Seine to explore love and the passage of time—was one of his best known. In the years since, its fame has only grown: it was set to music in a much-covered 1953 song by Léo Ferré, made into a choral arrangement by Lionel Daunais, and later interpreted by the Pogues. A plaque bearing the last lines can be found on the bridge’s foot. 

In a rare recording, you can hear Apollinaire himself read “Le Pont Mirabeau”: