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Pour une femme de mon nom - No. 1, Couplets with Chorus
from Act I of the French opera La Fille du Régiment by Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto: Jean Francois Bayard

Voice Part: mezzo-soprano       Fach: lyric mezzo
Setting: an army camp site in a valley in the Swiss Tyrolese Mountains, 1815
Synopsis: The Marquise and her townspeople sing of the invading Frenchmen and the lack of respect they show to the townspeople who have done them no wrong.
Range: Tessitura:
A#/Bb3 - D5A#/Bb3 - C5
Translations/Aria Texts:
Translation into English by Ann Feeney (added 1999-06-02)
Pour une femme de mon nom, Marquise's aria from La Fille du Régiment

Pour une femme de mon nom,			For a woman of my [lofty] name,
Quel temps hélas! le temps de guerre!		what times these are, alas, the times of war. 
Aux granduers on ne pense guère...		One hardly thinks of greatness,
Rien n'est sacré pour le canon!			nothing is sacred to the cannons.
Aussi, vraiment, je vis à peine....		Also, truly, I am barely alive,
Je dépéris, je le sens bien...			I'm crumbling, I can tell,
Jusqu'aux vapeurs, et la migraine,		I have vapours and a migraine.
Les ennemis, hélas!, ne respectent rien!	The enemies, alas, respect nothing.

Les Francais, chacun me l'assure,		The French, everyone assures me,
Sont une troupe de brigands...			are a band of highway men.
Pour peu qu'on ait de la figure,		If one is at all pretty,
Ils deviennent entreprenants les brigands.	they become daring highway men.
Aussi, je frémis quand j'y pense!		I tremble when I think about it.
Mon sort je le connais trop bien...		I know all too well my fate.
La beauté, les moeurs, l'innocence...		Beauty, manners, innocence...
Ces gens-là ne respectent rien!			those people don't respect anything!
   
Translation by Ann Feeney (afeeney@mcs.com)
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