Glad to see this trending on HN! As I was born in France, I had the pleasure to read it. Just thought the multiple translations available on the site seem like

Glad to see this trending on HN! As I was born in France, I had the pleasure to read it. Just thought the multiple translations available on the site seem like a good corpus to see if frontier models could improve the translation. Below is o3 take on "Le Chat", given as prompt the French original and all existing translations. I am not an expert in poetry and maybe not versed enough in English poetry specifically, but it looks suboptimal: It changed the structure, some verses seem overlong and I don't find the original beauty in "barbed claw's art". https://fleursdumal.org/poem/132 https://fleursdumal.org/poem/132 Le Chat Come, lovely cat, upon my ardent breast; Sheathe in your velvet paw the barbed claw’s art, And let me drown in eyes where, coalesced, Cold agate gleams within a molten heart. -- While idle fingers roam and fondly chart Your supple head and sinuous arched spine, My hand grows drunk on thrills that softly start Across your vibrant body’s living line. -- Then, in my mind, my woman’s gaze is mine: Like yours, dear beast, it pierces—deep, serene. From head to foot a perilous airs combine; A subtle scent swims round her dusk‑brown sheen.