Clair de Lune (poem) Clair de Lune (poem) Clair de Lune is a French poem written by Paul Verlaine in 1869. It is the inspiration for the third and most famous movement of Debussy's 1890 Suite bergamasque of the same name; Debussy also made two settings of the poem for voice and piano accompaniment. The poem has also been set to music by Gabriel Fauré and Jozef Szulc. Votre âme est un paysage choisi Que vont charmant masques et bergamasques Jouant du luth et dansant et quasi Tristes sous leurs déguisements fantasques. Tout en chantant sur le mode mineur L'amour vainqueur et la vie
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