Je suis l'enfant soleil was already closing around him"" and he is taken away ""with his hands above his head"". ""They thanked my father and then they left"" and the song ends with the ""sun child"" calling for her lover's return. David also recorded the song in German (as "Sonnenkind", translated: "Sun Child") and Italian ("Ragazza sole", translated: "Sun Girl"). It was succeeded as French representative at the 1980 Contest by Profil with "Hé, hé M'sieurs dames". Je suis l'enfant soleil "Je suis l'enfant soleil" (translated: "I Am the Sun Child" or "I'm A Child of the Sun") was the French entry in the
Shadows and Sun during World War II. Shadows and Sun Shadows and Sun / Ombres et Soleil: Selected Writings (1913-1952) is a comprehensive bilingual collection of the poems of Paul Eluard. Translated by Cicely Buckley and published in 1995 by Oyster River Press, the book is illustrated with the cover art “The dreamer” by Pablo Picasso, and six pen and ink drawings by Picasso, René Magritte, Marc Chagall, and André Lhote. Eluard’s simple language and sensitivity in the early and later love poems, and in the ‘poèmes engagés’ (poems committed to recovering justice for all), earned him the name of “the people’s poet.”