MS2008-3090-076 La fille de la forêt
Dublin Core
Title
MS2008-3090-076 La fille de la forêt
Subject
Description
Song text from VFC1998-0007 Martha Pellerin Collection. MS2008-3090-076 Yvonne Pellerin Songbook 1 of 4. Pp. 101 - 102.
Source
VFC1998-0007 Martha Pellerin Collection. MS2008-3090 Yvonne Pellerin Songbook 1 of 4. Vermont Folklife Center Archive, Vermont Folklife Center, Middlebury, Vermont, United States of America.
Rights
Copyright (c) Vermont Folklife Center
Relation
Complete Manuscript: vfc1998-0007_au2008-3090
Format
Language
fra
Type
Identifier
vfc2008-3090_ms2008-3090-056
Song Item Type Metadata
Supplied Title
La fille de la forêt
First Line
Dans la forêt au cœur d’une clairière
Scribe
Transcription
Dans la forêt au cœur d’une clairière
Un peintre un jour posa son chevalet
Dans le ruisseau coulant dans la bruyère
Il vit soudain Lison qui se mirait
Si frai, si pur lui sembla ce visage
Que sans attendre il peignit son reflet (ou portrait)
Et les oiseaux le jour de leur mariage
Jetèrent au ciel leurs plus beaux triolets
Dans la foret ayant trouvé l’étoile
Dont il rêvait comme un trésor secret
On m’a conté qu’il déchira sa toile
Bien moins jolie que son vivant protrait
De ma chanson retenez la morale
Un grand amour vaut mieux que son portrait.
Translation
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In the forest in the heart of a clearing
A painter one day planted his easel
In the stream flowing in the heather
He suddenly say himself looking at herself
So fresh, so pure this face seemed to him
That he immediately painted her reflection
And birds on the day of their wedding
Threw to the sky their prettiest song
In the forest having found the star
He had dreamt of like a secret treasure
I’m told his tore his canvas
Not as pretty as her living portrait
Remember the moral of my song
A great love is worth more than its portrait.
In the forest in the heart of a clearing
A painter one day planted his easel
In the stream flowing in the heather
He suddenly say himself looking at herself
So fresh, so pure this face seemed to him
That he immediately painted her reflection
And birds on the day of their wedding
Threw to the sky their prettiest song
In the forest having found the star
He had dreamt of like a secret treasure
I’m told his tore his canvas
Not as pretty as her living portrait
Remember the moral of my song
A great love is worth more than its portrait.
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Citation
“MS2008-3090-076 La fille de la forêt,” Vermont Folklife Center Digital Collections, accessed December 5, 2025, https://vtfolklifearchive.org/collections/items/show/109.
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