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ROUBEAU (G. S.). Songs. In French, manuscript on paper. France, ca. 1850, [15] ff, [1] blank f., [29] ff, [1] blank f., [15] ff, [1] blank f., large in-8 . Bound in green morocco with five raised bands and brown morocco title-piece. Spine and part of the first cover faded. Beautiful collection of songs carefully calligraphed with watercoloured titles. It gathers the texts of arias extracted from comic operas such as Les Huguenots by Meyerbeer, the Domino noir by Scribe and Auber, L'Éclair by Halévy, as well as songs of which we find some texts in La Clé du Caveau : à l'usage des chansonniers français ("Adieu Paris, sans regrets je te suite..." or in the Chansons nationales et populaires de France ("La Poitrinaire" whose real title is "Lucy ou la chute des feuilles" by Emile Barateau set to music by Plantade"). Many of these songs are now forgotten. At the head of the volume a dictionary of plants giving the properties of each: "Adonis: extreme love", "Lemon tree: desire for a match" or "Hydrangea: cold beauty, brave woman"... At the end two short stories: "Impressions de voyage d'un Singe à la Recherche du bonheur ou de toute autre chose de ce genre" (This is the story of a monkey who runs away from the Jardin des Plantes where he was born and goes through a thousand adventures before returning to the place from which he had run away) - "L'amitié". They seem to be unpublished.
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ROUBEAU (G. S.). Songs. In French, manuscript on paper. France, ca. 1850, [15] ff, [1] blank f., [29] ff, [1] blank f., [15] ff, [1] blank f., large in-8 . Bound in green morocco with five raised bands and brown morocco title-piece. Spine and part of the first cover faded. Beautiful collection of songs carefully calligraphed with watercoloured titles. It gathers the texts of arias extracted from comic operas such as Les Huguenots by Meyerbeer, the Domino noir by Scribe and Auber, L'Éclair by Halévy, as well as songs of which we find some texts in La Clé du Caveau : à l'usage des chansonniers français ("Adieu Paris, sans regrets je te suite..." or in the Chansons nationales et populaires de France ("La Poitrinaire" whose real title is "Lucy ou la chute des feuilles" by Emile Barateau set to music by Plantade"). Many of these songs are now forgotten. At the head of the volume a dictionary of plants giving the properties of each: "Adonis: extreme love", "Lemon tree: desire for a match" or "Hydrangea: cold beauty, brave woman"... At the end two short stories: "Impressions de voyage d'un Singe à la Recherche du bonheur ou de toute autre chose de ce genre" (This is the story of a monkey who runs away from the Jardin des Plantes where he was born and goes through a thousand adventures before returning to the place from which he had run away) - "L'amitié". They seem to be unpublished.
