Léo Ferré chante Baudelaire

Léo Ferré chante Baudelaire
Léo Ferré chante Baudelaire
Studio album by Léo Ferré
Released	1967
Recorded	June 1967; Barclay Studio, Paris (France)
Genre	Chanson
Length	60:02
Label	Barclay Records
Léo Ferré chronology

Léo Ferré chante Baudelaire (English: "Léo Ferré sings Baudelaire") is an album by Léo Ferré, released in 1967 by Barclay Records. It is his fourth LP dedicated to a poet, after a first Baudelaire effort in 1957 (Les Fleurs du mal), Les Chansons d'Aragon in 1961, and Verlaine et Rimbaud in 1964. It is also his second studio double album.

Track listing edit

Texts by Charles Baudelaire. Music composed by Léo Ferré.

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Spleen"	3:54
2.	"À une Malabaraise" (To a Lady of Malabar)	2:30
3.	"Épigraphe^[1]" (Epigraph for a Condemned Book)	0:51
4.	"L'Étranger" (The Stranger)	2:43
5.	"Tu mettrais l'univers" (You would take the entire world to bed with you...)	2:52
6.	"Le Chat" (The Cat)	4:34

Side two
No.	Title	Length
7.	"Le Soleil" (The Sun)	3:06
8.	"Le Vin de l'assassin" (The Murderer's Wine)	2:23
9.	"L'Albatros" (The Albatross)	2:22
10.	"À une passante" (To a Passerby)	2:10
11.	"Le Flacon" (The Perfume Flask)	3:18
12.	"La servante au grand cœur" (The kind-hearted servant of whom you were jealous...)	3:19

Side three
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Abel et Caïn" (Abel and Cain)	2:10
2.	"La Géante" (The Giantess)	2:12
3.	"Remords posthume" (Posthumous Remorse)	1:32
4.	"Les Bijoux" (The Jewels)	4:00
5.	"La Musique" (Music)	1:49
6.	"La Beauté" (Beauty)	2:26

Side four
No.	Title	Length
7.	"Causerie" (Conversation)	2:11
8.	"Recueillement" (Meditation)	2:30
9.	"La Muse vénale" (The Venal Muse)	1:22
10.	"Ciel brouillé" (Cloudy Sky)	2:27
11.	"Une charogne" (A Carcass)	2:25
12.	"Le Vert Paradis (Moesta et Errabunda)" (Grieving and Wandering)	3:55

^ Ferré asked to remove this title when the album was first reissued in 1973. It is unavailable since then.