2. Combourg (l.-et-V.) - Le château de Combourg qui se mire dans l'Etang du même lieu (c.1919)

Postcard. Postally used. Stamp intact. Cancellation date of 20 August, 1919.

Published by Phototypie Baudinière, 40. rue du Caire, Paris.

Bought from an eBay seller in Chantecorps, France.

Location: Google Maps Street View / Historypin

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combourg
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Château_de_Combourg

"Ma Soeur, te souvient-il encore / Du château que baignait la Dore" are the first lines of the third sextet of François-René de Chateaubriand's (1768-1848) 'Combien j’ai douce souvenance’. First published as 'Le montagnard émigré' in Mercure de France, 31 March 1806, and later incorporated into his novella 'Les Aventures du dernier Abencérage', written 1809, published 1826. Of this song Chateaubriand wrote: "This romance is already known to the public. I composed its words to an Auvergne mountain song, remarkable for its sweetness and simplicity." - www.ada.auckland.ac.nz/ada122ann.htm

WHAT SWEET REMEMBRANCE I HAVE or THE ÉMIGRÉ HIGHLANDER

What sweet remembrance I have
Of the pretty place of my birth!
My sister, how fine they were, the days
of France.
Oh my country, be my loves,
always.

Do you remember how our mother
At the hearth of our thatched cottage
Would press us to her joyful heart,
my dear;
And we would kiss her white hair,
both of us.

My sister, do you still remember
The castle bathed by the Dore?
And that tower, so old,
Of the Moor,
Where the bells sounded the return
of day?

Do you remember the tranquil lake,
That the agile swallow would skim,
The wind that would bend the mobile
reed,
And the sunset on the water,
so beautiful?

Do you remember that friend,
Tender companion of my life?
In the woods picking the pretty
flowers,
Helen would lean her heart
on mine.

Oh! who will give me back my Helen,
And my mountain, and the great oak?
Their memory every day causes
me sorrow;
My country will be my loves
always!

♫ www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWDIDvwVNZw ♫

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Taken in: France / Bretagne / Combourg (show map)

Taken on: January 1, 1919

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