- Amédée: Being free, in short, is not doing nothing, but being the sole decider of what to do or what not to do.
- Pépé la Rainette: The marsh can still feed a man for a long time. I always had all I needed here and had never been the servant of anyone.
- Amédée: And the green paradise of children's love / The innocent eden, filled with furtive pleasures / Is it now further than India and China? / Can we recall it with plaintive cries? / And animate it with a silvery voice / The innocent eden, filled with furtive pleasures.