This poem is of the same order of thought as le Lac of Lamartine and the Tristesse d'Olympia of Victor Hugo; see note on the latter poem.
When my mother died, and her failing voice crooned for the last time, 'Ah, la tristesse d'avoir aime!
We have to make comparisons between La Tristesse d'Olympio, Souvenir, and Le Lac'.
Tristesse If you were not away These trees, this south-wind and this dreary day Would all be mad with joyous ecstasy; But you are gone, so mourning they with me Find bitter-sweet in idle fantasy.
This is the house referred to in La Tristesse d'Olympio.
Here occurs the only discrepancy between La Tristesse d'Olympio and the letters of Juliette.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tristesse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
