La fille aux cheveux de lin divergence from Debussy's style at the time. Completed in January 1910, it was published three months later and premiered in June of that same year. The prelude is one of Debussy's most recorded pieces, both in its original version and in subsequent various arrangements. The title "La fille aux cheveux de lin" was inspired by Leconte de Lisle's poem by the same name, one of his "Chansons écossaises" (Scottish songs) from his 1852 collection "Poèmes antiques" (Ancient Poems). The image of a girl with flaxen-coloured hair has been utilized in fine art as a symbol of innocence and naivety. Musical
The Rape of the Lock Boucle de Cheveux Enlevée", published anonymously in 1728 and now ascribed either to Marthe-Marguerite, Marquise de Caylus, or to Pierre Desfontaines. Despite there being a playful French model for this kind of writing in Boileau's "Lutrin", the translator claims of Pope's work in the preface that "I do not believe that there can be found in our language anything more ingenious, in this playful genre." A verse translation by Jean-François Marmontel followed in 1746. The first German translation, "Der merckwürdige Haar-Locken-Raub" (1739), was a rendering of the French prose version of 1728. Luise Gottsched 's verse translation, "Der Lockenraub", was