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The house in Notre-Dame-des-Champs street where Victor Hugo wrote Les Feuilles d'automne.. Les Feuilles d'Automne (French pronunciation: [le fœj dotɔn], lit. ' Autumn Leaves ') is a collection of poems written by Victor Hugo, and published in 1831.
In 1950, Johnny Mercer wrote the English lyric and gave it the title "Autumn Leaves". The English lyrics are significantly shorter than the French version, consisting of only two verses. In the French original, the crucial line "C'est une chanson" starts at the 13th bar, while in English the line "the autumn leaves" starts at bar 1. [3]
The poems of Victor Hugo captured the spirit of the Romantic era. They were largely devoted to 19th-century causes. Many touched on religious themes. Initially they were royalist but soon became Bonapartist, Republican and liberal. Hugo's poems on nature revealed a continuing search for the great sublime.
La Légende des siècles was not originally conceived as the vast work it was to become. Its beginning, the original seed, was in a vague project entitled Petites Epopées ("Little Epics"), which features in the notes and jottings of Hugo from 1848, and which gives no indication of so vast an ambition.
Les Orientales (French pronunciation: [lez‿ɔʁjɑ̃tal]) is a collection of poems by Victor Hugo, inspired by the Greek War of Independence. They were first published in January 1829. Of the forty-one poems, thirty-six were written during 1828.
Fall is a hop, skip, and a jump (into a pile of crunchy leaves) away, which means it's almost time to pull out your favorite sweaters, flannels, and mugs to fill with endless pumpkin spice lattes.
Toute la Lyre part of manuscript. Toute la Lyre is a posthumous collection of poems by Victor Hugo. [1] The collection includes unpublished poems during his lifetime including love poems to Léonie d’Aunet.
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