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Armand Silvestre had actually wanted to pursue a military career, but then worked in a senior position in the French Ministry of Finance. He increasingly devoted himself to his real passion literature. Numerous composers felt inspired by Silvestre's poetry, above all Gabriel Faure. Faure even set Mystere to music before the official publication of the poem in the volume InchLe pays des rosesInch (The Land of Roses, 1882). He gave his InchMelodieInch the different title InchLe secretInch mysterious and melancholy, accompanied by simple yet harmonically rich piano sounds.
