From A Bibliography of Alexandre Dumas père by Frank Wild Reed: Six stanzas, three of eight lines, rhyming a, b, a, b, c, d, c, d; and three of four lines, alternating with the others as a kind of refrain, but not of identical wording, and also rhyming alternately.
Published, Paris, Bernard Latte, No. 2 Boulevard des Italiens, 1884. The music was here dedicated to M. Arnat, frontispiece by Célestin Nanteuil, printed by Guillet.
No date of composition is supplied.
