La Damoiselle élue (The Blessed Damozel), L. 62, is a cantata for soprano and contralto soloists, 2-part female chorus, and orchestra,[1] composed by Claude Debussy in 1887–1888 based on a text by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Claude Debussy was interested in the symbolist movement and later took inspiration from a poem by Stéphane Mallarmé for his Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (1894).

La Damoiselle élue belongs to the same period of composition as the Cinq poèmes de Charles Baudelaire, when Debussy was influenced by the music of Richard Wagner.

[2] La Damoiselle élue premiered in Paris at the Salle Érard on 8 April 1893, sponsored by the Société Nationale de Musique,[4] sung by Julia Robert and Thérèse Roger, and conducted by Jean Gabriel-Marie.

Sur Terre, ce dernier croit sentir sa présence (From the heights of paradise, a young girl laments the absence of her lover.