{"id":6157,"date":"2011-05-15T23:32:07","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T03:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=6157"},"modified":"2017-10-19T13:51:56","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T11:51:56","slug":"trop-damour-tue-too-much-love-kills-lamour-ou-la-mort-a-matter-of-love-and-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/trop-damour-tue-too-much-love-kills-lamour-ou-la-mort-a-matter-of-love-and-death\/","title":{"rendered":"“Trop d’amour tue” (Too Much Love Kills)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Some have upheld the old sacred view that\u00a0l’amour,\u00a0le v\u00e9<\/em>ritable amour <\/em>(love, true love) is the one that leads to the attainment of\u00a0l’immortalit\u00e9<\/em><\/em> (immortality.) The kind of love that, souvenez-vous <\/em>(remember), impelled Dante’s ascent to the gates of <\/a>le paradis<\/a> <\/em>(paradise), whence he joined his beloved B\u00e9atrice<\/em>. The sort of love that was once known to us as l’amour courtois <\/em>(courtly love), which ought to be distinguished, however, from the other “love”,\u00a0a bit more “debonair” (understand it in French, literally, as “of good air”), of Lancelot and Guenevere, or Tristan and Iseult.<\/p>\n

But that being the case, one may be tempted to ask:\u00a0En ce\u00a0bas monde <\/em>(in this earthly world), would too much of a good thing be not good, even when it comes to the matter of love—or, perhaps, what would one perceive as love?<\/p>\n

En d’autres termes<\/em> (in other words), can\u00a0trop d’amour <\/em>(too much love) turn, fatally, into\u00a0trop de mort <\/em>(too much death)?<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TwE5LVn5rWk<\/a><\/p>\n

La Fille d’Octobre, <\/em>“femme \u00e9carlate<\/em><\/em>” no doubt, sings<\/em> “Trop d’amour tue” (“<\/em>Too Much Love Kills“)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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* LA FILLE D’OCTOBRE – “TROP D’AMOUR TUE” <\/span><\/em>(“TOO MUCH LOVE KILLS”):<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Je me lancerais bien du plus haut des toits<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I’d readily plunge off the highest of the roofs<\/span><\/p>\n

Les chevilles lest\u00e9es des plus lourdes pierres
\n<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Ankles shackled by the heaviest stones<\/span><\/p>\n

Pleine de cet amour qui me rendait fi\u00e8re<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Awash with this love that made me proud<\/span><\/p>\n

(El\u00e8veras-tu ton regard sur moi?<\/em>)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

(Shall you raise your eyes upon me?)<\/span><\/p>\n

Je me jetterais bien dans les deux rivi\u00e8res<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I would readily jump into the two rivers<\/span><\/p>\n

Que mes joues creus\u00e9es ont charri\u00e9 pour toi<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

That my hollow cheeks carried along for you<\/span><\/p>\n

Noy\u00e9e dans les larmes \u00e9touffant ma voix<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Drowned into the tears that dampen my voice<\/span><\/p>\n

(M’accorderas-tu un peu de ton air?)<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Shall you concede me some of your air?<\/span><\/p>\n

Trop d’amour tue<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Too much love kills<\/span><\/p>\n

(Que le ciel me pr\u00e9pare un asile de mis\u00e8re)<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

(May the sky secure me a wretched asylum)<\/span><\/p>\n

Si tu me fais signe, je viendrais<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

If you signal me, I’ll come<\/span><\/p>\n

Je me couperais bien les jambes et les bras <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I’d readily severe legs and arms<\/span><\/p>\n

Pour donner au monde mon buste de pierre<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

To offer the world my stone bust<\/span><\/p>\n

Une fois p\u00e9trifi\u00e9e au jardin d’hiver<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Once petrified in the winter garden<\/span><\/p>\n

(Auras-tu piti\u00e9 de mon corps si froid?)<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

(Will you have mercy on my O’ so cold body?)<\/span><\/p>\n

Je me br\u00fblerais bien aux flammes de l’enfer<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I’d readily burn in the blazes of hell
\n<\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\n Que tu as laiss\u00e9 tout autour de moi<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

That you left all around me <\/span><\/p>\n

Si jamais le diable me mordait les doigts<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

If the devil ever bit my fingers<\/span><\/p>\n

(Lui livreras-tu une juste guerre ?)<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

(Would you wage a righteous war against him?)<\/span><\/p>\n

Trop d’amour tue<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Too much love kills<\/span><\/p>\n

(Que le ciel me pr\u00e9pare un asile de mis\u00e8re)<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

(May the sky hold for me a wretched asylum)<\/span><\/p>\n

Si tu me fais signe, je viendrais<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

If you signal me, I’ll come<\/span><\/p>\n

Trop d’amour tue<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Too much love kills<\/span><\/p>\n

(Que le ciel me pr\u00e9pare un endroit pour me taire)<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

May the sky hold for me a place where I’ll be quiet<\/span><\/p>\n

Si tu me refuses trop d’amour<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

If you refuse me too much love<\/span><\/p>\n

Je suis assez forte pour mourir cent fois<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I am strong to die a hundred times<\/span><\/p>\n

Mille dieux en col\u00e8re ne peuvent m’emp\u00eacher<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

A wrath of a thousand gods shan’t prevent me<\/span><\/p>\n

Si tu approches, \u00e9coutes au fond de moi<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

If you come close, listen deep within me<\/span><\/p>\n

Mon coeur c’est la terre pr\u00eate \u00e0 exploser<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

My heart is Earth prompt to burst<\/span><\/p>\n

Trop d’amour tue …<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Too much love kills…<\/span><\/p>\n

Trop d’amour tue<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Too much love kills<\/span><\/p>\n

(Que le ciel me pr\u00e9pare un asile de mis\u00e8re)<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

(May the sky hold for me a wretched asylum<\/span><\/a><\/strong>)<\/span><\/p>\n

Si tu me fais signe je viendrais<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

If you signal me, I’ll come<\/span><\/p>\n

Trop d’amour tue<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Too much love kills<\/span><\/p>\n

(Que le ciel me pr\u00e9pare un endroit pour me taire)<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

May the sky hold for me a place where I shall be quiet<\/span><\/p>\n

Si tu me refuses trop d’amour<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

If you refuse too much love<\/span><\/p>\n

Je viendrais …Trop d’amour …<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I’ll come… Too much love…<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

Some have upheld the old sacred view that l’amour, le v\u00e9ritable amour (love, true love) is the one that leads to the attainment of l’immortalit\u00e9 (immortality.) The kind of love that, souvenez-vous (remember), impelled Dante’s ascent to the gates of le paradis (paradise), whence he joined his beloved B\u00e9atrice. The sort of love that was…<\/p>\n

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