Jacques Prévert - Autograph manuscript - "Pater Noster". 1945.

Jacques PREVERT (1900.1977).

Autograph manuscript – Pater Noster

Two pages large in-4° on squared paper.

Without place or date [1945]

Superb working manuscript of the poet, composed of nearly fifty verses and notes in the margins.

This original text presents a very enriched version of the poem which will be published in his collection Paroles in 1946.

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Our Father who art in Heaven

stay there
and we will stay on Earth

which is sometimes so pretty
with its mysteries of New York
which are well worth that of the Trinity

with its small Ourcq canal
its Great Wall of China

its river of Morlaix

his nonsense from Cambrai
with its Pacific Ocean

and its two pools at the Tuileries
With its good children

and his bad subjects
with the wonders of the world

which are there offered to everyone

scattered
, amazed themselves at being such marvels

and who do not dare to admit it to themselves
like a pretty naked girl who does not dare to show herself

with the terrible misfortunes of the world

with the tortuous

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