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"Connais-tu le pays" (Mignon, Ambroise Thomas)
CultureMignon's romance in Act I of Ambroise Thomas's opéra-comique *Mignon* (libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré after Goethe's *Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre*), first given at the Opéra-Comique, Paris, on 17 November 1866. Mignon, asked where she comes from, remembers a sunny land, perhaps Italy, and sings "Connais-tu le pays où fleurit l'oranger ?", the French counterpart of Goethe's poem "Kennst du das Land". (Source: Wikipedia fr, "Mignon (opéra)", https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mignon_(op%C3%A9ra).) Thomas's score is public domain.
"Dormi pure" (romance)
CultureAn Italian romance ("Sleep on, then") that Marie calls "ma romance, celle que j'ai chantée à Saint-Jean et chez nous et partout" (050.0756). The composer is **not established**.
"Il était un roi de Thulé" (Faust, Act III)
CultureThe ballad Marguerite sings at her spinning wheel in Act III of Charles Gounod's *Faust* (Théâtre Lyrique, Paris, 19 March 1859), a melancholy song about a king of Thule faithful to his dead beloved, who kept her golden cup until his death. The text is adapted from Goethe's *Faust*. (Source: Wikipedia, "Faust (opera)", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust_(opera).) Public domain. For the opera see [Faust](../theater/FAUST.md).
"On dit que l'on te marie" (Ay Chiquita)
CultureA sentimental romance whose first line is «On dit que l'on te marie, / Tu sais que j'en vais mourir». It is the French version, by Paul Bernard, of the Spanish song *Ay, Chiquita* (also called *Las amonestaciones*) by the Spanish (Basque) composer Sebastián de Iradier (Yradier), published in Paris by Heugel. Source for this identification: a post on the Nabokov Society list (https://nabokovsociety.org/node/795), which quotes the first stanza and the refrain, "Qui voudrait m'aimer… et qui meurt, qui meurt pour toi". I have not independently confirmed the Heugel imprint or the translator; treat these details as secondary-source only. The 1878 repertoire claim below is Marie's own text. No full-text link is given because I did not find a verifiably public-domain scan.
"On revient toujours à ses premières amours" (romance)
CultureA French romance, and also a proverb ("one always returns to one's first loves"). I could not identify the composer or the date of the song; searches of IMSLP, BnF and the popular-music catalogues returned nothing under this title. Treat it as an unidentified sentimental romance of the early 1870s.
"The Marriage of the Duke of Hamilton" (Galignani's Messenger, December 1873)
CultureIn early December 1873 the Paris English-language daily [Galignani's Messenger](./GALIGNANI.md) carried reports on the approaching wedding of the 12th Duke of Hamilton and Lady Mary Montagu, eldest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Manchester. The wedding took place at **Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire, on Wednesday 10 December 1873**; the first notice quoted in the diary, copied by Galignani "d'après le Glasgow Herald" (Marie's headings), describes the programme of festivities at Kimbolton Castle and on the Hamilton estates in Lanarkshire, Arran and Kinneil: a ball at the Town Hall at Hamilton for some 600 guests on the Tuesday night, a tenants' banquet in the Riding School of Hamilton Palace, cannon remounted at Chatelherault for a salute, fireworks and bonfires, wedding presents from the yeomanry, the tenantry (a diamond bracelet subscribed for over £2,000) and the household (an inkstand worth close on £200).