Isabelle

Setting poetry to music, as Sophie Auster did, has been done before in French Music. Take Madame Deshoulières (2001) by Jean-Louis Murat was based on a series of poems written by Antoinette Deshoulières (a young noblewoman born in 1638), and marked a clean break from the rest of Murat's work. Fusing Murat's modern musical approach with baroque compositions written by Daniel Meier, the album featured the voice of French actress Isabelle Huppert reciting (with a voice like Marianne Faithfull's) Antoinette's poetry over Murat and Meier's arrangements.
(If you want to hear another French actress sing, click here).

Isabelle Huppert & Jean-Louis Murat - De rose ne reste que l'epine