"Clair de lune" (French for "Moonlight") is a poem written by French poet Paul Verlaine in 1869. It is the inspiration for the third and most famous movement of Claude Debussy's 1890 Suite bergamasque. Debussy also made two settings of the poem for voice and piano accompaniment. The poem has also been set to music by Gabriel Fauré, Louis Vierne, Sigfrid Karg-Elert, Josef Szulc, and Alphons Diepenbrock.

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  1. ^ "Clair de lune". One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine (a bilingual edition). Translated by Norman R. Shapiro. University of Chicago Press. 1998. ISBN 0-226-85344-6, 0-226-85345-4. Retrieved 2017-07-08. (Only the French text is quoted here.)
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