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>From: [log in to unmask] (jeffrey floyd stevens)
>Newsgroups: bit.listserv.museum-l,rec.arts.fine,soc.culture.french
>Subject: Daumier Translation?!?
>Date: 18 Feb 1995 13:09:37 -0700
>Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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>Keywords: Daumier,lithograph,translation
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>I need help translating the text surrounding a 1844 lithograph by
>Daumier.  Any help would be most appreciated.  The text is as follows:
 
>(above image)  Les Carottes
 
>(below image)  Carotte Dramatique - Couplet au public
>                Air de la Sentinelle
 
>(verse accompanying image)
>A vous, messieurs je madresse ee soir,
>Vous avez tant d'esprit, tant de finesse;
>A vous, messieurs, norte orgueil, notre espoir,
>Je viens (unknown word, three letters, like "iei") confesser ma faiblesse;
>Ah, dounez-moi, juge trop indulgent,
>Un boucher contre bien des attaques,
>Donnez-moi, public obligeant,
>Vos soins, vos conseils...votre argent;
>Et surtout donnez-moi des claques.
 
>Thank you again for your help.  Any information is greatly needed.
 
>Sincerely, Jeff Stevens
 
[above image] The carrots
 
[below image] Dramatic carrot? - poem to the public
 
 
To you, gentlemen I speak tonight,
You possess such wit, such finesse;
To you, gentlemen, our pride, our hope,
I come to confess my weakness;
Oh, give me, forbearing judge,
A butcher against many attacks,
Give me, kind public,
Yours help, your cousel...your money;
And most of all, throw me your clogs
 
If you need any more help translating stuff, I could give you a hand
(I'm a francophone!)
 
Jean-Francois Arseneault
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