From A Bibliography of Alexandre Dumas père by Frank Wild Reed: One four-line stanza, rhyming a, b, b, a; then two nine-line stanzas, rhyming a, b, b, a, c, d, c, c, d; finally another of four lines, which is a repetition of the first. M. Glinel points out a false line in the first stanza.
Published, about 1840, with music by L. Graziani; Paris, E. Gérard, former firm of Meissonnier.
It constituted No. 79 of "La Lyre Française," dedicated to M. Duprez. Paris, Bernard Latte, No 2 Boulevard des Italiens, with a design lithographed by Guillet.