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Ce château neuf, ce nouvel édifice
This new castle, this new building,
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Tout enrichi de marbre et de porphyre
enriched with marble and porphyry,
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Qu’amour bâtit château de son empire
where love built a castle for his empire
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où tout le ciel a mis son artifice,
and all of heaven added their skills,
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Est un rempart, un fort contre le vice,
a rampart, a fortress against vice,
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Où la vertueuse maîtresse se retire,
is whose virtuous mistress hides herself away,
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Que l’oeil regarde et que l’esprit admire
that the eye beholds and the spirit admires,
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Forçant les coeurs à lui faire service.
forcing hearts to her service.
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C’est un château, fait de telle sorte
It is a castle, made in such a way
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Que nul ne peut approcher de la porte
that none may approach its door
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Si des grands rois il n’a sauvé sa race
unless he has saved his people from the
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Victorieux, vaillant et amoureux.
Great Kings, victorious, valiant and loving.
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Nul chevalier tant soit aventureux
No knight, no matter how adventurous,
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Sans être tel ne peut gagner la place.
can enter without being such a person.
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