Au clair de la lune Au clair de la lune "" (, lit. "By the Light of the Moon") is a French folk song of the 18th century. Its composer and lyricist are unknown. Its simple melody () is commonly taught to beginners learning an instrument. Some sources report that "plume" (pen) was originally "lume" (an old word for "light" or "lamp"). 19th-century French composer Camille Saint-Saëns quoted the first few notes of the tune in the section "The Fossils", part of his suite "The Carnival of the Animals". Claude Debussy, composer of the similarly named "Clair de lune" from his "Suite bergamasque", uses "Au
Autour de la Lune and slow rate of change. The bulk of this work was originally commissioned and broadcast in September 2003 by Radio France Culture for a musical evocation of Jules Verne. As a book, "Autour de la Lune" (1870, "Around the Moon") was Jules Verne's sequel to his "De la Terre à la Lune" (1865, "From the Earth to the Moon"). The first one dealt with the Earth part of the story until the ship's launching, from the outside. "Autour de la Lune" dealt from the inside of the ship with the launching and the actual space travel to and around the