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            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
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                <text>French Execution Ballads</text>
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    <name>Execution Ballad</name>
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        <name>Set to tune of...</name>
        <description>Melody to which ballad is set.</description>
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            <text>Billets doux</text>
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        <description>Transcription of ballad lyrics</description>
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            <text>1er Couplet&#13;
&#13;
O! vous Messieurs de la Cour, &#13;
Aprs bien des jours, &#13;
O jÍai souffert comme un damné, &#13;
Je suis condamné!...&#13;
QuÍavait-on ö me reprocher? &#13;
DÍtre recherchéƒ&#13;
Aimé par les femmÍs. Est-ce un péché?&#13;
&#13;
1er Refrain&#13;
Amours fous, Amours fous qui enflamment, &#13;
Qui consument jusquÍau fond de lÍäme!!!&#13;
LÍon nÍest plus Rien. Ainsi comme un Envoi&#13;
Vers les Cieux lÍon quitte le Sol,&#13;
Amours fous, Amours fous qui vous brélent&#13;
O la Femme en fumées minuscules&#13;
DisparaÓt dans les Cieux, &#13;
Dans les langues de feu!&#13;
Amours de Gambais, &#13;
NÍoublient jamais!&#13;
&#13;
&#13;
2e Couplet&#13;
Vous dites, ces Anges, Landru, &#13;
Sont tous disparusƒ&#13;
Allons, quÍen avez-vous donc fait, &#13;
Lö-bas, ö Gambais, &#13;
Car, vous seul, devez le savoir, &#13;
Oui! mais, mon Devoir&#13;
Est dÍme tairÍ, jÍen suis au désespoir!&#13;
&#13;
2e Refrain&#13;
LÍAmour fou, lÍAmour fou qui mÍdomine, &#13;
De parler me retient, on lÍdevineƒ&#13;
Ne vous fiez donc pas ö mon Carnet, &#13;
Mon coeur seul détient le Secret, &#13;
Amours fous, amours fous qui consument, &#13;
Aprs moi, vous ferez un volume, &#13;
O, en pages de feu, &#13;
Le brélant amoureux, &#13;
Sera désormais, &#13;
LÍSaint de Gambais. &#13;
&#13;
3e Couplet&#13;
Enfin, cÍest bien fini de moi!...&#13;
Mais cÍest sans émoi,&#13;
Oui, que jÍécoute votre arrt, &#13;
Depuis longtemps prt.&#13;
A la guillotine je mÍen vais, &#13;
Bien loin de Gambais, &#13;
Regretté des femmes, ö jamais!&#13;
&#13;
Dernier Refrain dÍAdieux&#13;
Adieux donc, Amours fous, petitÍs femmes,&#13;
Mais de loin, vos beaux yeux pleins de flammes, &#13;
Réchaufferont ce pauvre vieux martyr, &#13;
Que les hommes traitent de Satyr, &#13;
Maintenant en malheurs on mÍabreuve, &#13;
Adieu Trottins, et vous, pauvres Veuves&#13;
A! qui donc maintenant&#13;
Sera lÍAmant brélant&#13;
Qui vous enflammait, &#13;
Villa Gambais?&#13;
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        <name>Language</name>
        <description>Language ballad is printed in</description>
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            <text>French</text>
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        <name>Date</name>
        <description>Date of ballad</description>
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            <text>1922&lt;</text>
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        <name>Synopsis</name>
        <description>Account of events that are the subject of the ballad</description>
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          <elementText elementTextId="5608">
            <text>Landru jokingly sings of the 'burning' loves he has had (he burned all his victims)</text>
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        <name>Notes</name>
        <description>Additional information related to the ballad pamphlet or related events</description>
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          <elementText elementTextId="5609">
            <text>https://complaintes.criminocorpus.org/complainte/les-adieux-de-landru-avant-de-monter-a-la-guilloti/</text>
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        <name>Method of Punishment</name>
        <description>Method of punishment described in the ballad.</description>
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            <text>beheading [guillotine]</text>
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        <name>Crime(s)</name>
        <description>Crime or crimes for which the person in the ballad is convicted.</description>
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        <name>Gender</name>
        <description>Gender of the person being executed.</description>
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            <text>Male</text>
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        <name>Age</name>
        <description>Age of the person condemned in the ballad.</description>
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            <text>52</text>
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        <name>Execution Location</name>
        <description>Location the condemned was executed.</description>
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            <text>Versailles</text>
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        <name>Composer of Ballad</name>
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            <text>Maurice Yvain</text>
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        <name>Date Tune First Appeared</name>
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            <text>https://complaintes.criminocorpus.org/media/img/2017/10/26/CC0625.jpg</text>
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            <text>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HenriéD%C3%A9sir%C3%A9éLandru</text>
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              <text>Les adieux de Landru avant de monter à la Guillotine</text>
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