Adieu

Adieu may refer to:

A word meaning "goodbye" in English and French

Derived from Old French into Middle English and Modern French, with English better preserving the original pronunciation:

• the English word, pronounced a.dju (rhyming with "you" in numerous works of English literature)
• the French word, pronounced a.djø, plural adieux

Books

• Adieu (fr), 1830 story by Honoré de Balzac from La Comédie humaine
• Adieu (fr), 1884 story from Guy de Maupassant bibliography

Film and TV

• Adieu (fr:Adieu (film)), a 2003 (released 2004) French film by Arnaud des Pallières starring Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Gourmet and Laurent Lucas

Music

Classical

• Adieu, a composition for piano by Edward Elgar
• Adieu (Stockhausen), a 1966 composition for wind quintet by Karlheinz Stockhausen
• Adieu, a 1986 composition for string quartet by Bent Sørensen
• Les adieux Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 26 in E flat major, Op. 81a

Albums

• Adieu (album), Logan Lynn 2016
• Adieu, album by French singer Michèle Torr 1983

Songs

• "Adieu" (Jahn Teigen and Anita Skorgan song), the Norwegian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1982
• "Adieu" (Cowboy Bebop), a song composed by Yoko Kanno for the anime Cowboy Bebop
• "Adieu", a song by British band Enter Shikari from Take to the Skies, 2007
• "Adieu" (Cœur de pirate song), 2011
• "Adieu", by Eleni Karaindrou from Dust of Time, 2009
• "So Long, Farewell", a song in The Sound of Music that includes the lyrics "Adieu, adieu, adieu / To you and you and you"
• "Adieu" (Rammstein song), a song by German band Rammstein from Zeit, 2022

Artist

• Adieu, the stage name of Moka Kamishiraishi

See also

• Adiós (disambiguation)