Texts by Charles Baudelaire. Music composed by Léo Ferré.
- Original LP
Side oneTitle |
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1. | "Spleen" | 3:54 |
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2. | "À une Malabaraise" (To a Lady of Malabar) | 2:30 |
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3. | "Épigraphe[1]" (Epigraph for a Condemned Book) | 0:51 |
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4. | "L'Étranger" (The Stranger) | 2:43 |
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5. | "Tu mettrais l'univers" (You would take the entire world to bed with you...) | 2:52 |
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6. | "Le Chat" (The Cat) | 4:34 |
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Side twoTitle |
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7. | "Le Soleil" (The Sun) | 3:06 |
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8. | "Le Vin de l'assassin" (The Murderer's Wine) | 2:23 |
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9. | "L'Albatros" (The Albatross) | 2:22 |
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10. | "À une passante" (To a Passerby) | 2:10 |
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11. | "Le Flacon" (The Perfume Flask) | 3:18 |
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12. | "La servante au grand cœur" (The kind-hearted servant of whom you were jealous...) | 3:19 |
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1. | "Abel et Caïn" (Abel and Cain) | 2:10 |
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2. | "La Géante" (The Giantess) | 2:12 |
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3. | "Remords posthume" (Posthumous Remorse) | 1:32 |
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4. | "Les Bijoux" (The Jewels) | 4:00 |
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5. | "La Musique" (Music) | 1:49 |
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6. | "La Beauté" (Beauty) | 2:26 |
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Side fourTitle |
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7. | "Causerie" (Conversation) | 2:11 |
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8. | "Recueillement" (Meditation) | 2:30 |
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9. | "La Muse vénale" (The Venal Muse) | 1:22 |
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10. | "Ciel brouillé" (Cloudy Sky) | 2:27 |
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11. | "Une charogne" (A Carcass) | 2:25 |
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12. | "Le Vert Paradis (Moesta et Errabunda)" (Grieving and Wandering) | 3:55 |
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- The orchestra consists of session musicians hired for the recording
- Arranger & orchestra conductor: Jean-Michel Defaye
- Director of engineering: Gerhard Lehner
- Executive producer: Jean Fernandez
- Artwork: Vanni Tealdi (first edition), Charles Szymkowicz (second edition)
- ^ Ferré asked to remove this title when the album was first reissued in 1973. It is unavailable since then.