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Le saint, craignant de pécher
(The Saint, afraid of doing wrong)
or La Tentation de saint Antoine
(The Temptation of Saint Anthony)
Tune Quand la mer Rouge apparut.

Ninth verse of the profane cantata La Tentation de saint Antoine (The Temptation of Saint Anthony), using the timbre Quand la mer Rouge apparut (When the Red Sea appeared).



Le saint, craignant de pécher The Saint, afraid of doing wrong

Drawing by Alfred Le Petit published in La Vie drolatique des saints (“The Comical Life of Saints”).
 9th verse
Le saint, craignant de pécher
Dans cette aventure,
Courut vite se cacher
Sous sa couverture.
Mais montant sur son châlit,
Il rencontra dans son lit

Une con, con, con,
Une cu, cu, cu,
Une con,
Une cu,
Une concubine,
C’était Proserpine.

Although referring to SEDAINE, following version of chorus is given by DUMERSAN and SÉGUR:

Un minois fripon,
Un joli tendron;
Sous des traits
Pleins d’attraits,
Une concubine:
C’était Proserpine.

Bibliography
• DUMERSAN Théophile Marion, SÉGUR Noël, Chansons nationales et populaires de France, chapitre “Chansons badines et grivoises”, Paris, Garnier frères, 1866, tome I, pages 123-125;
• LE PETIT Alfred, La Vie drolatique des saints, slnd, p. 211;
• MARSY Claude Sixte Sautreau de, Le Petit Chansonnier françois, Paris, veuve Duchesne libraire, 1780, tome II, p. 1-6.
• SEDAINE Michel Jean, Recueil de poésies, seconde partie “Cantates et chansons”, Paris, Duchesne libraire, 2e édition, 1760, pages 53-58;
• La Bigarure, ou Nouvelles galantes, historiques, littéraires, critiques, morales, satiriques, sérieuses et badines, La Haye, Pierre Gosse Junior libraire, n° 9, 25 mai 1752, tome XVI, pages 68-72;
• Chansons joyeuses de Piron, Collé, Gallet, etc., Paris, Moronval imprimeur-libraire, 1813, p. 139-147;

 

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