Act 2: Scene 3: Silver, Sugar and Indigo - Roger Waterstranslation in French
How
can
you
sleep?
Comment
peux-tu
dormir
?
How
can
you
think?
Comment
peux-tu
penser
?
How
can
you
live
with
no
coffee
to
drink?
Comment
peux-tu
vivre
sans
café
à
boire
?
You′d
better
pray
you
don't
have
a
sweet
tooth
Tu
ferais
mieux
de
prier
pour
ne
pas
avoir
la
dent
sucrée
The
price
of
sugar
is
through
the
roof
Le
prix
du
sucre
est
exorbitant
Robespierre,
Brissot
and
Concordant
all
agree
Robespierre,
Brissot
et
Concordant
sont
tous
d'accord
We
must
set
the
blackbird
free
Nous
devons
libérer
le
merle
But
sugar
and
silver
and
indigo
Mais
le
sucre,
l'argent
et
l'indigo
Make
even
the
wisest
man
"idiot!"
Font
de
l'homme
le
plus
sage
un
"idiot
!"
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Act 3: Scene 2: The National Assembly Is Confused
2 Act 2: Scene 4: The Papal Edict
3 Act 2: Scene 3: To the Windward Isles
4 Act 3: Scene 4: Marie Antoinette – The Last Night on Earth
5 Act 3: Scene 3: The Execution of Louis Capet
6 Act 2: Scene 3: Silver, Sugar and Indigo
7 Act 2: Scene 2: The Ship of State Is All at Sea
8 Act 1: Scene 4: To Laugh Is to Know How to Live
9 Act 3: Scene 1: To Take Your Hat Off
10 Act 3: Scene 1: But the Marquis of Boulli Has a Trump Card Up His Sleeve
11 Act 2: Scene 2: My Dear Cousin Bourbon of Spain
12 Act 2: Scene 1: Now Hear Ye!
13 Act 1: Scene 2: Let Us Break All the Shields
14 Act 2: Scene 1: Dances and Marches
15 Act 1: Scene 5: So to the Streets in the Pouring Rain
16 Act 1: Scene 5: To Freeze in the Dead of Night
17 Act 1: Scene 5: The Fall of the Bastille
18 Act 1: Scene 4: France in Disarray
19 Act 1: Scene 4: Slavers, Landlords, Bigots at Your Door
20 Act 3: Scene 1: The Fugitive King
21 Act 3: Scene 4: Adieu My Good and Tender Sister
22 Act 1: Scene 2: I Want to Be King
23 Act 1: Scene 2: Honest Bird, Simple Bird
24 Act 1: Scene 2: Kings, Sticks and Birds
25 Act 1: Scene 1: Madame Antoine, Madame Antoine
26 Act 1: Scene 1: A Garden in Vienna 1765
27 Act 1: Scene 3: The Grievances of the People
28 Act 3: Scene 5: And in the Bushes Where They Survive
29 Act 3: Scene 2: The Commune de Paris
30 Act 2: Scene 1: Flushed With Wine
31 Act 3: Scene 5: Liberty
32 Act 3: Scene 2: Vive la Commune de Paris
33 Act 3: Scene 3: Adieu Louis for You It’s Over
34 Act 3: Scene 1: The Echoes Never Fade From That Fusillade
35 Overture
36 The Gathering Storm
37 Act 2: Scene 4: In Paris There’s a Rumble Under the Ground
38 Act 2: Scene 2: The Letter
39 The Making of Ça Ira
2 Act 2: Scene 4: The Papal Edict
3 Act 2: Scene 3: To the Windward Isles
4 Act 3: Scene 4: Marie Antoinette – The Last Night on Earth
5 Act 3: Scene 3: The Execution of Louis Capet
6 Act 2: Scene 3: Silver, Sugar and Indigo
7 Act 2: Scene 2: The Ship of State Is All at Sea
8 Act 1: Scene 4: To Laugh Is to Know How to Live
9 Act 3: Scene 1: To Take Your Hat Off
10 Act 3: Scene 1: But the Marquis of Boulli Has a Trump Card Up His Sleeve
11 Act 2: Scene 2: My Dear Cousin Bourbon of Spain
12 Act 2: Scene 1: Now Hear Ye!
13 Act 1: Scene 2: Let Us Break All the Shields
14 Act 2: Scene 1: Dances and Marches
15 Act 1: Scene 5: So to the Streets in the Pouring Rain
16 Act 1: Scene 5: To Freeze in the Dead of Night
17 Act 1: Scene 5: The Fall of the Bastille
18 Act 1: Scene 4: France in Disarray
19 Act 1: Scene 4: Slavers, Landlords, Bigots at Your Door
20 Act 3: Scene 1: The Fugitive King
21 Act 3: Scene 4: Adieu My Good and Tender Sister
22 Act 1: Scene 2: I Want to Be King
23 Act 1: Scene 2: Honest Bird, Simple Bird
24 Act 1: Scene 2: Kings, Sticks and Birds
25 Act 1: Scene 1: Madame Antoine, Madame Antoine
26 Act 1: Scene 1: A Garden in Vienna 1765
27 Act 1: Scene 3: The Grievances of the People
28 Act 3: Scene 5: And in the Bushes Where They Survive
29 Act 3: Scene 2: The Commune de Paris
30 Act 2: Scene 1: Flushed With Wine
31 Act 3: Scene 5: Liberty
32 Act 3: Scene 2: Vive la Commune de Paris
33 Act 3: Scene 3: Adieu Louis for You It’s Over
34 Act 3: Scene 1: The Echoes Never Fade From That Fusillade
35 Overture
36 The Gathering Storm
37 Act 2: Scene 4: In Paris There’s a Rumble Under the Ground
38 Act 2: Scene 2: The Letter
39 The Making of Ça Ira
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