Claude Debussy instead "an exquisite, pellucid style" capable of conveying "not only gaiety and whimsicality but emotion of a deeper sort". In a 2004 study, Mark DeVoto comments that Debussy's early works are harmonically no more adventurous than existing music by Fauré; in a 2007 book about the piano works, Margery Halford observes that "Deux arabesques" (1888–1891) and "Rêverie" (1890) have "the fluidity and warmth of Debussy's later style" but are not harmonically innovative. Halford cites the popular "Clair de Lune" (1890) from the "Suite Bergamasque" as a transitional work pointing towards the composer's mature style. Musicians from Debussy's time onwards have
Cendres de lune time and out of the standards" ("Le Républicain"). "The songs of Mylène fill the air with an atmosphere alternately naughty and sad but very engaging" ("7 à Paris"). "Mylène's voice is exquisite and her accomplices made her sing little ordinary things" ("La Dépêche"). "[Farmer] seduces with sensitive texts, almost surreal, tenderly erotic" ("Le Télégramme"). In France, "Cendres de lune" charted for the very first time in April 1989, after the success of the second album, "Ainsi soit je...". It peaked at number 39 and has sold 367,700 copies to date. Note 9 songs, without "Tristana" and the two remixes Cendres