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Gustave Nadaud
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“Je me fais vieux, j’ai soixante ans, J’ai travaillé toute ma vie, Sans avoir, durant tout ce temps. Pu satisfaire mon envie. Je vois bien qu’il n’est ici-bas De bonheur complet pour personne. Mon vœu ne s’accomplira pas: Je n’ai jamais vu Carcassonne!”
Gustave Nadaud (1820–1893) said by 1893 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yet could I these two days have spent, While still the autumn sweetly shone, Ah, me! I might have died content When I had looked on Carcassonne.”
Gustave Nadaud (1820–1893) said by 1893 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They tell me every day is there Not more nor less than Sunday gay; In shining robes and garments fair The people walk upon their way. One gazes there on castle walls As grand as those of Babylon, A bishop and two generals! What joy to be in Carcassonne! Ah! might I but see Carcassonne!”
Gustave Nadaud (1820–1893) said by 1893 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The vicar’s right; he says that we Are ever wayward, weak and blind; He tells us in his homily Ambition ruins all mankind;”
Gustave Nadaud (1820–1893) said by 1893 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thy pardon, Father, I beseech, In this my prayer if I offend; One something sees beyond his reach From childhood to his journey’s end. My wife, our little boy Aignan, Have travelled even to Narbonne; My grandchild has seen Perpignan; And I — have not seen Carcassonne...”
Gustave Nadaud (1820–1893) said by 1893 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source