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elleng

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Thu Jun 6, 2024, 10:14 PM Jun 2024

"Chanson d'automne" ("Autumn Song") is a poem by Paul Verlaine [View all]

(1844–1896), one of the best known in the French language. It is included in Verlaine's first collection, Poèmes saturniens, published in 1866 (see 1866 in poetry). The poem forms part of the "Paysages tristes" ("Sad landscapes&quot section of the collection.[1]

In World War II lines from the poem were used to send messages from Special Operations Executive (SOE) to the French Resistance about the timing of the forthcoming Invasion of Normandy.

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