Édith Weber, a member in France wrote us about a new edition of Luther's hymns.
"These are French Paraphrases (not at all "translations") strophic, rhymed, versified, very close to Luther's ideas (this was not the case with the few former extant French texts). To be sung exactly on the well known German melodies (same number of syllables in German and French, and of notes). Quite an endeavour... can you imagine ?
First Part :
Exegesis from different points of view : theological, hymnological, historical, literary, poetical (prosody, semantic), several contexts even practical (according to the liturgical year) including history of ideas and religious mentalities.
Second Part :
43 Songs (Litany, liturgical songs and Lutheran Chorals) for 4 voices, meant for organists to accompany the assembly during worship, or for choir masters (concerts and special liturgical occasions).
(I asked the publisher to issue a small volume with only the 43  4-voices settings)
Besides, some 4-voices settings from 16th-18th centuries' composers are suggested.
Of course, this publication will interest Frenchspeaking churchgoers and Lutheran (even Catholic because of some sources e. g.  Veni Redemptor gentium).
As a matter of fact, in the Second Part, you can find the few Latin original texts, the German texts by Martin Luther and the French "Paraphrases" by Yves Kéler."