Note 56 — INTRODUCTION
Mary Blaiklock translation
The Huit scènes de Faust are taken from Goethe's tragedy, translated by Gérard de Nerval, and they include: (1) Chants de la fête de Pâques; (2) Paysans sous les tilleuls; (3) Concert des Sylphes; (4 and 5) Taverne d'Auerbach, with the two songs of the Rat and the Flea; (6) Chanson du roi de Thulé; (7) Romance de Marguerite, "D'amour, l'ardente flamme," and Choeur de soldats; (8) Sérénade de Méphistophélès—that is to say, the most celebrated and characteristic pages of the Damnation (see M. Prudhomme's essays on Le Cycle de Berlioz).