tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2551635885139255992024-03-19T22:54:50.137-07:00More Brassens Songs with Translation- DYendley3David Yendleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09171810352548143316noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-255163588513925599.post-51568913657294235032020-08-08T23:05:00.002-07:002020-09-18T13:49:34.330-07:00Brave Margot - A heart-breaking tale of a shepherdess, who adopts a lost kitten<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">This is a very well-known song with a
catchy chorus that people enjoy singing. The story is set in a rustic
France whose way of life was characterized by joie de vivre and in British eyes
with a lot of harmless naughtiness. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Cat lovers need consoling that it is
only a made-up story.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zuxMhzKeozo" width="320" youtube-src-id="zuxMhzKeozo"></iframe></div><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Brave Margot</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Margoton la jeune bergère</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Trouvant dans l'herbe un petit chat</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Qui venait de perdre sa mère</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">L'adopta</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Elle entrouvre sa collerette(1)</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Et le couche contre son sein</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">C'était tout c' qu'elle avait, pauvrette,</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Comm' coussin</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Le chat la prenant pour sa mère</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Se mit à téter tout de go(2)</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Émue, Margot le laissa faire</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Brav' Margot</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Un croquant passant à la ronde(3)</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Trouvant le tableau(4) peu commun</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">S'en alla le dire à tout l' monde</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Et le lendemain</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">(Chorus)</span></i><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Quand Margot dégrafait son corsage</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Pour donner la gougoutte(5) à son chat</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Tous les gars, tous les gars du village</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Étaient là, la la la la la la</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Étaient là, la la la la la</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Et Margot qu'était simple et très sage</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Présumait qu' c'était pour voir son chat</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Qu'tous les gars, qu'tous les gars du village</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Étaient là, la la la la la la</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Étaient là, la la la la la</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">L' maître d'école et ses potaches</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Le mair', le bedeau, le bougnat(6)</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Négligeaient carrément leur tâche</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Pour voir ça</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Le facteur d'ordinair' si preste(7)</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Pour voir ça, ne distribuait plus</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Les lettres que personne au reste</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">N'aurait lues</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Pour voir ça, Dieu le leur pardonne,</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Les enfants de chœur au milieu</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Du saint sacrifice(8) abandonnent</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Le saint lieu</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Les gendarmes, mêm' les gendarmes</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Qui sont par natur' si ballots(9)</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Se laissaient toucher par les charmes</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Du joli tableau</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Chorus</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Quand Margot dégrafait son corsage</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Pour donner la gougoutte(3) à son chat</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Tous les gars, tous les gars du village</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Étaient là, la la la la la la</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Étaient là, la la la la la</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Et Margot qu'était simple et très sage</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Présumait qu' c'était pour voir son chat</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Qu'tous les gars, qu'tous les gars du village</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Étaient là, la la la la la la</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Étaient là, la la la la la</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Mais les autr’s femm’s de la commune</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Privées d’leurs époux, d’leurs galants,</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Accumulèrent la rancune</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Patiemment…</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Puis un jour, ivres de colère(10),</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Elles s’armèrent de bâtons</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Et, farouches, elles immolèrent(11)</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Le chaton…</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">La bergère, après bien des larmes</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Pour s’consoler prit un mari</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Et ne dévoila plus ses charmes</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Que pour lui…</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Le temps passa sur les mémoires,</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">On oublia l’événement,</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Seuls des vieux racontent encore</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">À leurs p’tits enfants…</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">(Chorus)</span></i><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Quand Margot dégrafait son corsage</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Pour donner la gougoutte(3) à son chat</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Tous les gars, tous les gars du village</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Étaient là, la la la la la la</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Étaient là, la la la la la</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Et Margot qu'était simple et très sage</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Présumait qu' c'était pour voir son chat</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Qu'tous les gars, qu'tous les gars du village</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Étaient là, la la la la la la</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Étaient là, la la la la la</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">(1954 – (Les amoureux des bancs publics 2).</span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Kind-hearted Margot</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Li’l Margot the young shepherdess</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Finding in the grass a small cat</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Which had got lost from his mother</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Adopted him</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">She half opens her dress collar</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">And lays him up against her breast</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">It was all that she’d got, poor girl,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">For a pillow.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The cat, thinking her his mother</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Started to suckle straight away</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Thrilled, Margot let him carry on</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Kind Margot</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">An oafish man walking around</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Finding the tableau unusual</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Went to tell everyone the tale</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">And the day after</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">(Chorus)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">When Margot was undoing her blouse</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">To give her cat its drop of milk</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">All of the lads of the village,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Were out there, la la la la la la</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Were out there, la la la la la</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">And Margot, a simple, very good girl Presumed it was to see her cat</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">That all the lads of the village,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Were there, la la la la la la</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Were there, la la la la la</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The school teacher and his pupils</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The mayor, the beadle, the coalman</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Flagrantly neglected their work</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">To see this.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The postman, normally so prompt</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">To see this, stopped delivering</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The mail that, besides, no-body</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Would have read.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">To see this, may God forgive them,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The altar boys right at the height</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Of the Holy Sacrifice sneak off</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">From God’s house.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The gendarmes, even the gendarmes,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Who are, by nature, so cumbrous</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Let themselves be touched by the charms</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">O’the pretty tableau.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">(Chorus)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">When Margot was undoing her blouse</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">To give her cat its drop of milk</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">All of the lads of the village,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Were out there, la la la la la la</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Were out there, la la la la la</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">And Margot, a simple, very good girl Presumed it was to see her cat</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">That all the lads of the village,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Were there, la la la la la la</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Were there, la la la la la</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">But the other women of the district</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Deprived of husbands or boyfriends,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Built up their resentment</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Patiently …</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Then one day, vicious with anger,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">They armed themselves with staves</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">And ferociously slayed</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The small cat …</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The shepherdess, after much weeping,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">So to console herself, got wed</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">And ne’er again revealed her charms</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">But for him …</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Time passed over the memories;</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The happenings were forgotten;</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Just some old men still tell the tale</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">To their grandchildren …</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">(Chorus)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">When Margot was undoing her blouse</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">To give her cat its drop of milk</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">All of the lads of the village,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Were out there, la la la la la la</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Were out there, la la la la la</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">And Margot, a simple, very good girl Presumed it was to see her cat</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">That all the lads of the village,</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Were there, la la la la la la</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Were there, la la la la la</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Translation
Notes</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;"><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">1)</span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 7pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Collerette- Larousse tells us that this is a little
round collar, often pleated, made of fine linen</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;"><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="FR" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">2)</span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="FR" style="color: black; font-size: 7pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="FR" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Le chat se mit à téter tout de
go. </span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">This fact gives us a problem. If
the young shepherdess has milk in her breasts, she must be a nursing mother and
we find out later that she was not then married. From this it would
appear that she is not so “sage” in the French sense ( not such a good girl)
and perhaps not so young.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">On the other hand it is important for
the poem that the shepherdess is young and innocent. Perhaps the answer
is that Brassens is being very relaxed about human biology for the sake of his
tale.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;"><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">3)</span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 7pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">A la ronde= around - for example « à
des kilomètres à la ronde » translates as « for miles
around »</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;"><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">4)</span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 7pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Le tableau : We would normally translate the
word « tableau » as “picture” and this would be acceptable
here, but its meaning in French is also “theatrical scene” and the
French word is used in English. The dictionary defines “ tableau »
in English as: “</span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="background: white; color: #a8397a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">an </span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; padding: 0cm;">arrangement</span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="background: white; color: #a8397a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> of </span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; padding: 0cm;">people</span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="background: white; color: #a8397a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> who do not </span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; padding: 0cm;">move</span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="background: white; color: #a8397a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> or </span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; padding: 0cm;">speak</span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="background: white; color: #a8397a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">, </span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; padding: 0cm;">especially</span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="background: white; color: #a8397a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">on a </span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; padding: 0cm;">stage</span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="background: white; color: #a8397a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">, who </span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; padding: 0cm;">represent</span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="background: white; color: #a8397a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> a </span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; padding: 0cm;">view</span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="background: white; color: #a8397a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> of </span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; padding: 0cm;">life</span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="background: white; color: #a8397a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">, an </span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; padding: 0cm;">event</span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="background: white; color: #a8397a; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">, etc.”.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;"><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">5)</span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 7pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Le bougnat – Larousse tells us that this word
refers to a coal merchant.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;"><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">6)</span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 7pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">La gougoutte : is baby talk for « la
goutte » - the drop (of water etc).</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;"><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">7)</span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 7pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Preste – Robert translates this as “nimble”.
It describes speed of movement and as an interjection “preste!” means “hurry
up!” I suppose that is why British magicians say “Hey presto!”</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;"><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">8)</span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 7pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Au milieu du saint sacrifice – thus at the climax
of the mass.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;"><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">9)</span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 7pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Ballot : in correct speech this means
parcel/ package. Robert says that this is a noun in familiar speech
meaning “nitwit”. The basic idea seems to be heavy and plodding of
movement. The idea of policemen being like a parcel seems to link with the policeman
image in the children’s story, where he is “Mr Plod – the policeman”.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;"><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">10)</span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 7pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Ivres de colère – the most common translation for
« ivre » is drunk/ intoxicated but it also means in the grip of
extreme passions hence: ivre de joie= wild with joy, ivre de sang= thirsting
for blood.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;"><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">11)</span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 7pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Larousse tells us that immoler is to offer an
animal or a human being as a sacrifice/to put to death/massacre.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am a great admirer of Carla Bruni and her songs. I like the very personal poetry in her lyrics and I like her music. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My English version is meant to help me fully enjoy the French as I watch and listen to a very charming and gifted lady. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<b>INDEX OF CARLA BRUNI SONGS IN ORDER OF ALBUMS</b></h2>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><u>Click on a song title in the following index to access your selected song.</u></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262626; line-height: 18.4px;"><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With the help of Louis Bertignac, friend and former member of the group Téléphone, Carla Bruni wrote and composed all twelve songs in “Quelqu’un m’a dit”, which came out in 2003.</span></i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1 <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/quelqu-un-m-a-dit" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #e55600; font-size: 12pt;">Quelqu'unm'a dit</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> - </span></b><o:p></o:p>When a treasured relationship is breaking up, one clings for a time to vague hopes that are as valid as rumours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">3 <b><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/tout-le-monde" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #e55600; text-decoration-line: none;">Tout le monde</span></a></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> - </span></b><strong><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The crass indifference of those who are happy to let even the most cherished memories die.</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">4 <b><span lang="FR" style="border: 1pt none; color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/la-noyee"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #e55600; text-decoration-line: none;">La Noyee</span></a></span></b><b><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;"> - </span></b>T<span lang="EN">his is a cover version of a song by the famous French singer and poet Serge Gainsbourg. His influence creates a darker and more pessimistic picture of the human condition.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">5 <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/le-toi-du-moi" target="_blank"><b><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #e55600; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">Le Toi du Moi</span></b></a><b><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;"> - </span></b>One can imagine that this is a traditional game that lovers might play, in which they are trying to prove how they perfectly complement each other<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">6 <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/le-ciel-dans-une-chambre"><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #e55600; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">Le ciel dans une chambre</span></a><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;"> - </span>Carla Bruni sings of the magical transformation of her bedroom when she is in the arms of her lover.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">7 <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/j-en-connais" target="_blank">J'En Connais</a> – She reflects defiantly on all the many men in her life<span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">8 <span lang="FR" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/le-plus-beau-du-quartier" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #e55600; text-decoration-line: none;">Le plus beau du quartier</span></a></span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;"> - </span>A satirical portrait of a paragon of fashion, whose bisexuality permitted him a universal pasture for his vanities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">9 <span lang="FR" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/chanson-triste" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #e55600; text-decoration-line: none;">Chanson triste</span></a></span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;"> - </span>A short song at the end of a love that failed but does not deserve to be forgotten.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">11 <span lang="FR" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/l-amour" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #e55600; text-decoration-line: none;">L'Amour</span></a></span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;"> - </span>Carla Bruni and her musical collaborator, Louis Bertignac, present a song in the style of American Blues.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;">1)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;">"</span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/--those-dancing-days-are-gone"><span style="color: #e55600; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">Those dancing days are gone</span></a><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;">" -</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._B._Yeats" title="W. B. Yeats"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;">W. B. Yeats</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext;">7)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;">"</span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/if-you-were-coming-in-the-fall"><span style="color: #e55600; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">If you were coming in the fall</span></a><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;">" - </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson" title="Emily Dickinson"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;">Emily Dickinson</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext;">8)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;">"</span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/i-went-to-heaven"><span style="color: #e55600; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">I went to Heaven</span></a><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;">" - </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson" title="Emily Dickinson"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;">Emily Dickinson</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">9)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/ballade-at-thirty-five---poem-by-dorothy-parker" target="_blank">"Afternoon"</a> - </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Parker" title="Dorothy Parker"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;">Dorothy Parker</span></a><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 16.1px;"> - Looking forward uncertainly to old age</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span>"<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/ma-jeunesse" target="_blank"><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #e55600; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">Ma Jeunesse</span></a>” - As her youth is coming to an end, Carla Bruni looks back on the mixed up, tumultuous years and her main thought is regret at the time she has wasted as this period has sped by<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span>"<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/la-possibilite-d-une-ile" target="_blank"><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #e55600; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">La Possibilité d'une Île</span></a>” - <span lang="EN">This is an adaptation of a poem by Michel Houellebecq which she finds as romantic, and as beautiful as verses of Baudelaire.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">3)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span>"<span lang="FR" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/l-amoureuse" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #e55600; text-decoration-line: none;">L'Amoureuse</span></a></span><span lang="FR"> </span>“ - The exhilaration of the intoxicating, sensuous enhancements that the world assumes when a woman falls in love.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">4)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span>"<b><span lang="FR" style="border: 1pt none; color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/tu-es-ma-came" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #e55600; text-decoration-line: none;">Tu es ma came</span></a></span></b> “ - Carla Bruni is saying that her love for her boyfriend exhilarates her<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span>as if she had taken a drug. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">5)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span>"<span lang="FR" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/salut-marin" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #e55600; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Salut Marin</span></a></span>” - These are words of farewell to Carla’s elder brother, Virginio Tedescki, who died in 2006, at the age of 46. He had been a fanatic for solo yacht expeditions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">9)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/le-temps-perdu" target="_blank"><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #e55600; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">Le temps perdu</span></a><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;"> - </span>Carla Bruni is proposing to some lucky man that he should take a break from all the useful things he is doing and waste some time having a cuddle with her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After her marriage to Sarkozy she wrote this personal song of love coming back into her life and of all the many things that were wrong before. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Carla Bruni provides us with an insightful and novel character sketch of her husband and reveals her deep admiration for him. “Raymond” stands for “Nicholas”!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For some moments, alone each night, she speaks aloud to someone or something beyond herself, in the vastness of infinity. From this she is able to gain real consolation and hope.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She says why she does not see herself as a lady (and her evidence has already been voiced in other songs). She is still the unruly, unfeminine child she once was. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This song is Carla’s own Italian version of “Douce France”, one of the most famous songs of Charles Trenet. (1913 – 2001).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">6)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span>"<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/chez-keith-et-anita" target="_blank"><b><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #e55600; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">Chez Keith et Anita</span></b></a>" <span lang="EN">This song expresses nostalgia for the 1970's. Looking at photos of the period, Carla imagines herself present in the company of the Rolling Stones, when they were recording the album, "Exile on main street", in the South of France.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Carla Bruni puts words to the beautiful music of Chopin’s Valse Posthume”. The three time of the waltz becomes symbolic of the three stages of her life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">10)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span>"<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/liberte"><span lang="FR" style="color: #e55600; font-size: 12pt;">Liberte</span></a>"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Carla Bruni’s lament about the progressive erosion of our personal freedoms in the modern mass society and her desperate hope that personal liberty can yet survive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 16pt;">OTHER RECORDINGS OF CARLA BRUNI (0UTSIDE HER OWN ALBUMS)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">1)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/nobody-knows-you-when-you-re-down-and-out"><span style="color: #e55600; font-size: 12pt;">Nobody knows you when you're down and out</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;">. (Traditional American Blues)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">2)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/and-i-love-her--duet-with-harry-connick-jnr"><span style="color: #e55600; font-size: 12pt;">And I love her.</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> (Beatles song) -Carla in duet with Harry Connick Jnr.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">3)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/those-little-things" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e55600; font-size: 12pt;">Those little things</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> and Ces petits riens<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">4)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/absolute-beginners-david-bowie"><span style="color: #e55600; font-size: 12pt;">Absolute Beginners (David Bowie)</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">5)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/make-you-feel-my-love" target="_blank"><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #e55600; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">Make You Feel My Love</span></a><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;"> (Song by Bob Dylan)</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">TALKING ABOUT CARLA AND HER SONGS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I am compiling some biographical notes on the following link:- </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/biographical-detail" target="_blank"><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #e55600; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">Biographical detail</span></a><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;"> to serve as background information.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>INDEX OF SONGS IN ORDER OF POSTING</b><br />
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1)<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/quelqu-un-m-a-dit">Quelqu'un m'a dit</a><br />
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2) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/peche-d-envie">Peche d'envie</a><br />
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3)<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/chanson-triste">Chanson triste</a><br />
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4) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/fernande-song-by-georges-brassens">Fernande</a> (Brassens)<br />
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5) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/l-amoureuse">L'Amoureuse</a><br />
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6) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/la-derniere-minute">La derniere minute</a><br />
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7) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/le-plus-beau-du-quartier">Le plus beau du quartier</a><br />
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8) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/le-temps-perdu">Le temps perdu</a><br />
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9) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/raphael">Raphael</a><br />
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10) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/tout-le-monde">Tout le monde</a><br />
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11) <span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/l-excessive" target="_blank">L'Excessive</a></span></span><br />
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span lang="FR" style="border: 1pt; color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">12) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/l-amour" target="_blank">L'Amour</a></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span lang="FR" style="border: 1pt; color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">13) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/je-suis-une-enfant" target="_blank">Je suis une enfant</a></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">14) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/la-possibilite-d-une-ile" target="_blank">La possibilite d'une Ile</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">15) M<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/ma-jeunesse" target="_blank">a Jeunesse</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">16) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/le-ciel-dans-une-chambre" target="_blank">Le Ciel dans une Chambre</a></span></div>
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18) <span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/deranger-les-pierres" target="_blank">Déranger les Pierres</a></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;">19) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/le-toi-du-moi" target="_blank">Le Toi du Moi<o:p></o:p></a></span></div>
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20) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/tu-es-ma-came" target="_blank">Tu es ma came</a></div>
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21) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/chez-keith-et-anita" target="_blank">Chez Keith et Anita</a></div>
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22) <span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/la-noyee" target="_blank">La Noyée</a></span><br />
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23) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/notre-grand-amour-est-mort" target="_blank">Notre Grand Amour est Mort</a><br />
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24) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/biographical-detail" target="_blank">Biographical Details</a><br />
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25) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/mon-raymond" target="_blank">Mon Raymond</a><br />
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26) <span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/j-arrive-a-toi" target="_blank">J'arrive à toi</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><br />27) <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/priere" target="_blank">Prière<o:p></o:p></a></span><br /><br />28) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/le-pingouin" target="_blank">Le Pingouin</a><br /><br />29) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/little-french-song" target="_blank">Little French song</a><br /><br />30) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/dolce-francia" target="_blank">Dolce Francia</a><br /><br />31) <span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/liberte" target="_blank">Liberté</a></span><br /><br />32) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/darling" target="_blank">Darling</a><br /><br />33) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/la-valse-posthume" target="_blank">La Valse Posthume</a><br /><br />34) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/pas-une-dame" target="_blank">Pas Une Dame</a><br /><br />35 <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/at-last-the-secret-is-out" target="_blank">At last the secret is out</a> (W H Auden)<br /><br />36 <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/lady-weeping-at-the-crossroads" target="_blank">Lady weeping at the crossroads</a> (W.H.Auden)<br /><br />37) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/promises-like-piecrust" target="_blank">Promises like piecrust</a> (Christina Rossetti)<br /><br />38) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/absolute-beginners-david-bowie" target="_blank">Absolute Beginners</a> - The David Bowie song<br /><br />39) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/before-the-world-was-made" target="_blank">Before The World Was Made</a> (Poem by W.B. Yeats)<br /><br /><br />40) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/--those-dancing-days-are-gone" target="_blank">Those dancing days are gone</a> (Poem by W. B. Yeats)<br /><br />41) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/if-you-were-coming-in-the-fall" target="_blank">If you were coming in the fall</a> (Poem by Emily Dickinson)<br /><br />42)<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/i-felt-my-life-with-both-my-hands" target="_blank"> I felt my life with both my hands</a> (Poem by Emily Dickinson)<br /><br />43) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/i-went-to-heaven" target="_blank">I went to heaven</a> (Poem by Emily Dickinson)<br /><br />44) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/nobody-knows-you-when-you-re-down-and-out" target="_blank">Nobody knows you when you're down and out</a> (American Blues song)<br /><br />45) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/and-i-love-her--duet-with-harry-connick-jnr" target="_blank">And I love her - Beatles song</a> - Duet with Harry Connick Jnr</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">46) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/those-little-things" target="_blank">Those little things</a> - and Ces petits riens by Gainsbourg</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">47) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/lune" target="_blank">Lune</a> - At a distressing time, Carla finds solace in lone contemplation under a full moon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">48) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/make-you-feel-my-love" target="_blank">Make you feel my love</a> - Carla sings Bob Dylan</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">49) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/autumn" target="_blank">Autumn</a> - the poem of the English poet, Walter De La Mare</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">50)<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/la-blonde-exquise" target="_blank"> La blonde exquise</a> Her reluctant fight against a long-term addiction</span></div>
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I am a great admirer of Carla Bruni and her songs. I like the
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<i><span lang="EN" style="color: #262626; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">With
the help of Louis Bertignac, friend and former member of the group Téléphone,
Carla Bruni wrote and composed all twelve songs in “Quelqu’un m’a dit”, which
came out in 2003.</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1 <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/quelqu-un-m-a-dit" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #e55600; text-decoration: none;">Quelqu'unm'a dit</span></b></a><b> - </b>When a treasured
relationship is breaking up, one clings for a time to vague hopes that are as
valid as rumours.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">2 </span><span lang="FR" style="border: none 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/raphael" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #e55600; text-decoration: none;">Raphael</span></a></span><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; padding: 0cm;"> - </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Carla
Bruni tells of her passionate love for Raphael, the philosophy professor and
media personality, with whom she formed a relationship in 2001.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">3 </span><b><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/tout-le-monde" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #e55600; text-decoration: none;">Tout le monde</span></a></span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> - </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The crass indifference of those who are
happy to let even the most cherished memories die.</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "times" , "serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">4 </span><b><span lang="FR" style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/la-noyee"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #e55600; text-decoration: none;">La Noyee</span></a></span></b><b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; padding: 0cm;"> - </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">T</span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">his is a cover version of a song by the famous
French singer and poet Serge Gainsbourg. His influence creates a darker and
more pessimistic picture of the human condition.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">5 <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/le-toi-du-moi%20i" target="_blank"><b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #e55600; padding: 0cm; text-decoration: none;">Le Toi du Moi</span></b></a></span><b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; padding: 0cm;"> - </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">One can imagine that this is a traditional game
that lovers might play, in which they are trying to prove how they
perfectly complement each other</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">6 <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/le-ciel-dans-une-chambre"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #e55600; padding: 0cm; text-decoration: none;">Le ciel dans unechambre</span></a><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"> - </span>Carla Bruni sings of the
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">7 <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/j-en-connais" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">J'En Connais</span></a> – She reflects defiantly on all the many men
in her life</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">8 </span><span lang="FR" style="border: none 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/le-plus-beau-du-quartier" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #e55600; text-decoration: none;">Le plus beau du quartier</span></a></span><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; padding: 0cm;"> - </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A
satirical portrait of a paragon of fashion, whose bisexuality permitted him a
universal pasture for his vanities.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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short song at the end of a love that failed but does not deserve to be
forgotten.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">10 </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/l-excessive" target="_blank"><span lang="FR" style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #e55600; padding: 0cm; text-decoration: none;">L'Excessive</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="border: none 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; padding: 0cm;"> - </span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Carla Bruni introduces her
song by saying "Cest une chanson de quelqu'un qui aime beaucoup les
exces. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mmmmm Mmmmm!"</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">11 </span><span lang="FR" style="border: none 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/l-amour" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #e55600; text-decoration: none;">L'Amour</span></a></span><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; padding: 0cm;"> - </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Carla
Bruni and her musical collaborator, Louis Bertignac, present a song in the
style of American Blues.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">12 </span><b><span lang="FR" style="border: none 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/la-derniere-minute" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #e55600; text-decoration: none;">La dernière minute</span></a></span></b><b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; padding: 0cm;"> - </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Carla
hopes that at the end of her tumultuous, chaotic life, she will be allowed one
brief moment to pay her last respects to it all it has meant to her - just one
minute. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Album
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<i><span lang="EN" style="color: #262626; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It
was not until January 2007 that Carla Bruni’s second album, entitled “No
Promises” finally came out. Once more accompanied by Louis Bertignac, Carla
chose to set to music texts from British and American poets of the 19th and
20th centuries, including Yeats, Auden, Emily Dickinson and many others. She
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days are gone</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">" -</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._B._Yeats" title="W. B. Yeats"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; text-decoration: none;">W. B. Yeats</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">2)</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">"</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/before-the-world-was-made"><span style="color: #e55600; text-decoration: none;">Before the World
Was Made</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">" -</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._B._Yeats" title="W. B. Yeats"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; text-decoration: none;">W. B. Yeats</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">3)</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">"</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/lady-weeping-at-the-crossroads"><span style="color: #e55600; text-decoration: none;">Lady weeping at
the crossroads</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">" -</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._H._Auden" title="W. H. Auden"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; text-decoration: none;">W. H. Auden</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">4)</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> "</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/i-felt-my-life-with-both-my-hands"><span style="color: #e55600; text-decoration: none;">I felt my life
with both my hands</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">"- </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson" title="Emily Dickinson"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; text-decoration: none;">Emily
Dickinson</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">5)</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">"</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/promises-like-piecrust"><span style="color: #e55600; text-decoration: none;">Promises like
piecrust</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">" -</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Rossetti" title="Christina Rossetti"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; text-decoration: none;">Christina Rossetti</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">6)</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">"</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/autumn"><span style="color: #e55600; text-decoration: none;">Autumn</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">" - </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_de_la_Mare" title="Walter de la Mare"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; text-decoration: none;">Walter
de la Mare</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">7)</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">"</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/if-you-were-coming-in-the-fall"><span style="color: #e55600; text-decoration: none;">If you were
coming in the fall</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">" - </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson" title="Emily Dickinson"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; text-decoration: none;">Emily
Dickinson</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">8)</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">"</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/i-went-to-heaven"><span style="color: #e55600; text-decoration: none;">I went to Heaven</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">" - </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson" title="Emily Dickinson"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; text-decoration: none;">Emily
Dickinson</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">9)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/afternoon---poem-by-dorothy-parker" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">"Afternoon"</span></a> - </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Parker" title="Dorothy Parker"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; text-decoration: none;">Dorothy
Parker</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> - Looking forward uncertainly to
old age</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">10)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/ballade-at-thirty-five---poem-by-dorothy-parker" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">"Ballade at Thirty-Five</span></a>" - </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Parker" title="Dorothy Parker"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; text-decoration: none;">Dorothy
Parker</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> - a young woman's defiance at a
difficult time</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">11)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">"</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/at-last-the-secret-is-out"><span style="color: #e55600; text-decoration: none;">At last the
secret is out</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">" - </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._H._Auden" title="W. H. Auden"><span style="color: #0b0080; font-size: 10.5pt; text-decoration: none;">W. H. Auden</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #262626; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">H</span></i><i><span lang="EN" style="color: #262626; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">aving decided to combine her
position as France's First Lady with her ongoing singing career, she released
her third album on 11 July 2008. The title: "Comme si de rien
n'était" was that of a photographic work by her brother, Virginio
Bruni Tedeschi, who had died in 2006. The release of "Comme si de rien
n'était", a year after her husband had been elected President in May 2007,
caused great excitement in the international media and journalists and
commentators were unable to decide whether to discuss the album from the point
of view of music or of politics</span></i><span lang="EN" style="color: #262626; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1)</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/ma-jeunesse" target="_blank"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #e55600; padding: 0cm; text-decoration: none;">Ma Jeunesse</span></a>” - As her youth is coming
to an end, Carla Bruni looks back on the mixed up, tumultuous years and her
main thought is regret at the time she has wasted as this period has
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">2)</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/la-possibilite-d-une-ile" target="_blank"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #e55600; padding: 0cm; text-decoration: none;">La Possibilité d'une Île</span></a>” - </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This is an adaptation of a
poem by Michel Houellebecq which she finds as romantic, and as
beautiful as verses of Baudelaire.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">3)</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"</span><span lang="FR" style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/l-amoureuse" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #e55600; text-decoration: none;">L'Amoureuse</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> “ - The exhilaration of the intoxicating, sensuous enhancements
that the world assumes when a woman falls in love.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">4)</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"</span><b><span lang="FR" style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/tu-es-ma-came" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #e55600; text-decoration: none;">Tu es ma came</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> “ - Carla Bruni is saying that her love for her boyfriend
exhilarates her</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">as if she had taken a drug. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">5)</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"</span><span lang="FR" style="border: none 1.0pt; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/salut-marin" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #e55600; text-decoration: none;">Salut Marin</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">” - These are words of farewell to Carla’s elder brother, Virginio
Tedescki, who died in 2006, at the age of 46. He had been a fanatic for solo
yacht expeditions.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">6)</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/ta-tienne" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">Ta tienne</span></a> “ - </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Having had
so many lovers, she now offers herself to to belong completely to just one</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">7)</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/peche-d-envie" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #e55600; text-decoration: none;">Péché d'envie</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">»- In each cryptic line Carla gives suggestions of things she has
done, her enjoyments and her trials, her ecstasies and disappointments,
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">8)</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/you-belong-to-me" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">You Belong to Me</span></a>" - Carla sings with feeling the
American hit song of the 1950s</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">9)</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/le-temps-perdu" target="_blank"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #e55600; padding: 0cm; text-decoration: none;">Le temps perdu</span></a><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"> - </span>Carla
Bruni is proposing to some lucky man that he should take a break from all the
useful things he is doing and waste some time having a cuddle with her.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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tells how a loving childhood creates a shell in which each individual child
can survive regardless of age.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">11)</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"</span><b><span lang="FR" style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; padding: 0cm;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/deranger-les-pierres" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #e55600; text-decoration: none;">Déranger Les Pierres</span></a></span></b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">” - </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Carla
Bruni tells us that she based this song on the music, which Julien Clerc gave
her. She finds that it makes a very big difference.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">12)</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/l-antilope" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">L'antilope”</span></a> – </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Carla Bruni’s painful
awareness of the strains of her celebrity lifestyle, with the sometimes
excruciating mistakes of your past, paraded for evermore by the media and
with speculation about your future fall from grace its delight. The
only way to cope is to focus narrowly on the present.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">13)</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/notre-grand-amour-est-mort"><b><span lang="FR" style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #e55600; padding: 0cm; text-decoration: none;">Notre Grand Amour Est Mort</span></b></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">” -</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">After all their wild romance, one day
her lover came and told it was not working for him and their great love
was over.-</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="color: #262626; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Album Four:- 2013:
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262626; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">As
early as 2010, there had been rumours that Bruni was preparing a fourth album
and this appeared in April 2013 …… "Little French Songs</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/goog_1388983901"><b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #e55600; padding: 0cm; text-decoration: none;">J</span></b></a><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/j-arrive-a-toi"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #e55600; padding: 0cm; text-decoration: none;">'arrive à toi</span></a><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"> </span>"</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">After her marriage to Sarkozy she wrote
this personal song of love coming back into her life and of all the many things
that were wrong before. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">2)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">" <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/mon-raymond" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">Mon Raymond</span></a> "</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Carla Bruni provides us with
an insightful and novel character sketch of her husband and
reveals her deep admiration for him. “Raymond” stands for “Nicholas”!</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">3)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/priere"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #e55600; padding: 0cm; text-decoration: none;">Priere</span></a><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"> </span>"</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">For some moments, alone each night, she
speaks aloud to someone or something beyond herself, in the vastness of
infinity. From this she is able to gain real consolation and hope.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">4)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/pas-une-dame"><span style="color: #e55600; text-decoration: none;">Pas Une Dame</span></a>"</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">She says why she does not see herself
as a lady (and her evidence has already been voiced in other songs). She
is still the unruly, unfeminine child she once was. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">5)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/dolce-francia"><span style="color: #e55600; text-decoration: none;">Dolce Francia</span></a>"</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This song is Carla’s own Italian
version of “Douce France”, one of the most famous songs of Charles Trenet.
(1913 – 2001).</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">6)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/chez-keith-et-anita" target="_blank"><b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #e55600; padding: 0cm; text-decoration: none;">Chez Keith et Anita</span></b></a>" </span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This song expresses nostalgia
for the 1970's. Looking at photos of the period, Carla imagines
herself present in the company of the Rolling Stones, when they were recording
the album, "Exile on main street", in the South of France.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">7)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/darling"><span style="color: #e55600; text-decoration: none;">Darling</span></a>"</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Carla talks with total frankness about
the painful loss of a close personal friend - François Baudot (1950- 2010). In
tribute to him, she produces this sad and melodious song.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">8)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/la-valse-posthume"><span style="color: #e55600; text-decoration: none;">La Valse
Posthume</span></a>"</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Carla Bruni puts words to the beautiful
music of Chopin’s Valse Posthume”. The three time of the waltz becomes symbolic
of the three stages of her life.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">9)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/la-blonde-exquise" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e55600; text-decoration: none;">La Blonde Exquise</span></a>" </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In her struggle to give up smoking, the
thoughts of her favourite cigarette (with tabac blond) persist in harassing
her.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">10)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/liberte"><span style="color: #e55600; text-decoration: none;">Liberte</span></a>"</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Carla Bruni’s lament about the
progressive erosion of our personal freedoms in the modern mass society and her
desperate hope that personal liberty can yet survive.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">11)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/little-french-song"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #e55600; padding: 0cm; text-decoration: none;">Little French Song</span></a> "</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In this nice simple song , mainly in
English, Carla enjoys herself rhyming English words and French.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">12)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/lune"><span style="color: #e55600; text-decoration: none;">Lune</span></a> - Carla
spends her nocturnal moments of lone reflection under a full moon.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">13)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/le-pingouin"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #e55600; padding: 0cm; text-decoration: none;">Le Pingouin</span></a>"
The identity of the person satirised in this song is not revealed,
but as soon as the song appeared the majority of the media was convinced that
her words were directed against the man who had replaced her
husband, Nicholas Sarkozy, as President of France, François Hollande.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">OTHER SONGS OF CARLA BRUNI</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/nobody-knows-you-when-you-re-down-and-out"><span style="color: #e55600; text-decoration: none;">Nobody knows you
when you're down and out</span></a>. (Traditional American Blues)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">2)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/and-i-love-her--duet-with-harry-connick-jnr"><span style="color: #e55600; text-decoration: none;">And I love her.</span></a>
(Beatles song) -Carla in duet with Harry Connick Jnr.)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">3)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/those-little-things" target="_blank"><span style="color: #e55600; text-decoration: none;">Those little things</span></a> and Ces petits riens</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">4)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/absolute-beginners-david-bowie"><span style="color: #e55600; text-decoration: none;">Absolute
Beginners (David Bowie)</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">5)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/make-you-feel-my-love" target="_blank"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #e55600; padding: 0cm; text-decoration: none;">Make You Feel My Love</span></a><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"> (Song by Bob Dylan)</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">6)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/fernande-song-by-georges-brassens" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #e55600; text-decoration: none;">Fernande</span></b></a><b> (</b>Song by Georges
Brassens)- Although advised against this song, previously banned on French
radio, Carla performs Brassens’ study of the inconsistent sexual consolations
available to men when they are in situations deprived of women.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">TALKING ABOUT CARLA AND HER SONGS</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am compiling some biographical notes
on the following link:- <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/biographical-detail" target="_blank"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #e55600; padding: 0cm; text-decoration: none;">Biographical detail</span></a><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"> to serve as background
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<b>INDEX OF SONGS IN ORDER OF POSTING</b><br />
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1)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/quelqu-un-m-a-dit"><span lang="FR" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">Quelqu'un m'a dit</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
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2) </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/peche-d-envie"><span lang="FR" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">Peche d'envie</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
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3)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/chanson-triste"><span lang="FR" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">Chanson triste</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
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4) </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/fernande-song-by-georges-brassens"><span lang="FR" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">Fernande</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> (Brassens)<br />
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5) </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/l-amoureuse"><span lang="FR" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">L'Amoureuse</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
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6) </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/la-derniere-minute"><span lang="FR" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">La derniere minute</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
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7) </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/le-plus-beau-du-quartier"><span lang="FR" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">Le plus beau du quartier</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
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8) </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/le-temps-perdu"><span lang="FR" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">Le temps perdu</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
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9) </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/raphael"><span lang="FR" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">Raphael</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
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10) </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/tout-le-monde"><span lang="FR" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">Tout le monde</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
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11) </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/l-excessive" target="_blank"><span lang="FR" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">L'Excessive</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="border: none 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; padding: 0cm;">13) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/je-suis-une-enfant" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">Je suis une enfant</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">14) </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/la-possibilite-d-une-ile" target="_blank"><span lang="FR" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">La possibilite d'une Ile</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">15)
M</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/ma-jeunesse" target="_blank"><span lang="FR" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">a Jeunesse</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">16) </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/le-ciel-dans-une-chambre" target="_blank"><span lang="FR" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">Le Ciel dans une Chambre</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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23) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/notre-grand-amour-est-mort" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">Notre Grand Amour est Mort</span></a><br />
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24) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/biographical-detail" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">Biographical Details</span></a><br />
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25) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/mon-raymond" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">Mon Raymond</span></a><br />
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26) </span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/j-arrive-a-toi" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">J'arrive à toi</span></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
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27) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/priere" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">Prière</span></a><br />
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28) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/le-pingouin" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">Le Pingouin</span></a><br />
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29) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/little-french-song" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">Little French song</span></a><br />
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30) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/dolce-francia" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">Dolce Francia</span></a><br />
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31) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/liberte" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">Liberté</span></a><br />
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32) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/darling" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">Darling</span></a><br />
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33) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/la-valse-posthume" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">La Valse Posthume</span></a><br />
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34) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/pas-une-dame" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">Pas Une Dame</span></a><br />
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35 <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/at-last-the-secret-is-out" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">At last the secret is out</span></a> (W H Auden)<br />
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36 <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/lady-weeping-at-the-crossroads" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">Lady weeping at the crossroads</span></a> (W.H.Auden)<br />
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37) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/promises-like-piecrust" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">Promises like piecrust</span></a> (Christina Rossetti)<br />
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38) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/absolute-beginners-david-bowie" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">Absolute Beginners</span></a> - The David Bowie song<br />
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39) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/before-the-world-was-made" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">Before The World Was Made</span></a> (Poem by W.B. Yeats)<br />
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40) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/--those-dancing-days-are-gone" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">Those dancing days are gone</span></a> (Poem by W. B. Yeats)<br />
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41) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/if-you-were-coming-in-the-fall" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">If you were coming in the fall</span></a> (Poem by Emily Dickinson)<br />
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42)<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/i-felt-my-life-with-both-my-hands" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;"> I felt my life with both my hands</span></a> (Poem by Emily
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43) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/i-went-to-heaven" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">I went to heaven</span></a> (Poem by Emily Dickinson)<br />
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44) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/nobody-knows-you-when-you-re-down-and-out" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">Nobody knows you when you're down and out</span></a> (American Blues
song)<br />
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45) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/and-i-love-her--duet-with-harry-connick-jnr" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">And I love her - Beatles song</span></a> - Duet with Harry Connick
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47) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/lune" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">Lune</span></a> - At a distressing time, Carla finds solace in lone
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48) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/make-you-feel-my-love" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">Make you feel my love</span></a> - Carla sings Bob Dylan</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
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49) <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/autumn" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;">Autumn</span></a> - the poem of the English poet, Walter De La Mare</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
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50)<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/carlabrunissongsintranslation/la-blonde-exquise" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none;"> La blonde exquise</span></a> Her reluctant fight against
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">hello,I
just want to say that I love your blog.I myself is a carla bruni's
fan.Unfortunately i dont speak french as you do.I have to search for
translations of her song online and most of them are very dull,then i found
your blog!!!yahnk you for providing such beautiful translation and deep insight
into Madame Sarkozy's lyrics and personal life.There seem to be 2 other songs
of her:Lune and La Blonde Exquise that i can't find translation anywhere.My
life will be complete if you could translate those 2 songs :)))anyway thanks
again for all your hardwork,really aprreciated it(and sorry for my english XD )<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />David Yendleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09171810352548143316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-255163588513925599.post-83647933058001565102018-04-20T16:25:00.001-07:002020-08-04T03:58:19.896-07:00La Ronde des Jurons -The vanishing art of French swearing<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "" "calibri" "" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">It should not surprise us that
Brassens devoted a song to the swearwords of France. Swearing
has been described as “poor men’s poetry” and Brassens, of course, is the
champion of the underprivileged in the face of the oppression of the institutionalized
forces of State and Church, whose social and religious taboos have been targeted by swearwords through the centuries.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "" "calibri" "" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">I have, however, made an attempt
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script of the poem.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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La ronde des jurons</span></div>
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The dance of the swearwords</span></div>
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1 Voici la ronde(<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">a</b>) des jurons</span></div>
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Quand les Gaulois</span></div>
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De bon aloi(<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">b</b>)</span></div>
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Du franc-parler(<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">c</b>) suivaient la
loi ,</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">6 Jurant par-là , jurant par-ci(<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">d</b>) ,</span></div>
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7 Jurant à langue raccourci'(<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">e</b>) ,</span></div>
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Comme des grains de chapelet</span></div>
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Les joyeux jurons défilaient(<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">f</b>) :</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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(Refrain)</span></div>
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10 Tous les morbleus , tous les ventrebleus ,</span></div>
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Les sacrebleus et les cornegidouilles </span></div>
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Ainsi , parbleu , que les jarnibleus</span></div>
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Et les palsambleus ,</span></div>
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Tous les cristis, les ventres saint-gris </span></div>
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Les par ma barbe et les noms d'une pipe ,<br />
16 Ainsi , pardi , que les sapristis</span></div>
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Et les sacristis ,</span></div>
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Sans oublier les jarnicotons ,</span></div>
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Les scrogneugneus et les bigre' et les bougre'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">20 Les
saperlott's , les cré nom de nom ,</span></div>
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Les peste , et pouah , diantre , fichtre et foutre,</span></div>
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22 Tous les Bon Dieu ,</span></div>
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Tous les vertudieux ,</span></div>
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Tonnerr' de Brest et saperlipopette </span></div>
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Ainsi , pardieu , que les jarnidieux</span></div>
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Et les pasquedieux.</span></div>
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Quelle pitié ! Les charretiers(<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">g</b>)</span></div>
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Ont un langage châtié(<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">h</b>) !</span></div>
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Les harengères(<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">i</b>)</span></div>
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Et les mégères(<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">j</b>)</span></div>
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Ne parlent plus à la légère !</span></div>
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32 Le vieux catéchisme poissard(<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">k</b>)</span></div>
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N'a guèr' plus cours chez les hussards </span></div>
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34 Ils ont vécu(<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">L</b>) , de profundis(<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">m</b>) </span></div>
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Les joyeux jurons de jadis</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">1 Here is the swearword rondo</span></div>
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When Gauls of old</span></div>
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Of true metal</span></div>
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Followed the law of plain-speaking,</span></div>
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Swearing here, there and everywhere</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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10 All the morbleus, all the ventrebleus,</span></div>
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The Sacrebleus and the cornegidouilles,</span></div>
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Just as, parbleu, with the jarnibleus</span></div>
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And the palsambleus,</span></div>
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All the cristis, the ventres saint-gris,</span></div>
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The par ma barbe and the noms d’une pipe,</span></div>
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Just as, pardi, with sapristis</span></div>
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And the sacristis,</span></div>
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Not forgetting les jarnicotons,</span></div>
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The scrogneugneus and the bigre' and the bougre',</span></div>
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The plague, and pouh, diantre, fichtre and foutre,</span></div>
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All the Bon Dieu,</span></div>
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All the vertudieux,</span></div>
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Tonnerr' de Brest and saperlipopette,</span></div>
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Just as, pardieu, with the jarnidieux</span></div>
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And the pasquedieux.</span></div>
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What a shame! The truck drivers</span></div>
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Have now cleaned up their language!</span></div>
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All the fishwives</span></div>
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And harshest shrews</span></div>
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Don’t speak now without restraint!</span></div>
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The old obscene catechism</span></div>
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Is scarce used now by the hussars.</span></div>
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They’ve had their day, so rest in peace,</span></div>
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The merry oaths of times gone by.</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mort de Dieu</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Swearing on the body of Christ - but <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">blurring the vital word</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">ventrebleu,</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">10</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ventre de dieu</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Swearing on the belly of Christ cut open on the
cross- but <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">blurring the vital word</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">cornegidouille,</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">11</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">An oath invented for the surrealist play
« Ubu Roi » of 1896<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">sacrebleu</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">11</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sacré Dieu</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Swearing on the sacred God - but blurring the vital word.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">parbleu</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">12</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Par Dieu</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Swearing on God - but minced word.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">jarnibleu</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">12</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Je renie Dieu</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Denying God-total blasphemy ! -but <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">blurring the vital word</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">palsambleu<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">13<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Par le sang de Dieu<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Swearing on the blood Christ shed on the cross -
but <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">blurring the vital word</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">cristi,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">14<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Christ<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Swearing on Christ’s name<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">ventre saint-gris</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">14</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ventre de dieu</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Swearing on the belly of Christ – but a substitute
noun<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">ma barbe</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">15</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mon Dieu</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Swearing on God but substitute noun<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">nom d'une pipe</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">15</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Nom de dieu</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Swearing on God’s name, but substitute noun<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">pardi</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">16</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Par Dieu</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Swearing on God - but <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">blurring the vital word</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">sapristi</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sacré Christ</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Swearing on the sacred Christ - but <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">blurring the vital word</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">sacristi,</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">17</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sacré Christ</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Swearing on the sacred Christ - .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">jarnicoton</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">18</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Je renie Dieu</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Denying God-total blasphemy ! But
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">scrogneugneu</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">19</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Nom de Dieu</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Swearing on God’s name but <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">blurring the vital words</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">bigre</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">19</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">bugger</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Obscenity </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">- but minced word.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">bougre</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">19</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">bugger</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Obscenity</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">saperlotte</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">20</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sacred God</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Swearing on God but substitute noun<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Cré nom de nom</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">20</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sacred Name of God</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Blurring the words</span> and substituting the vital noun<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">peste</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">21</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Plague<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Swearing on the horrific plagues of medieval
Europe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">pouah</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">21</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Expression of disgust as in English<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">diantre</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">21</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Devil</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Swearing on the Devil - but <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">blurring the vital word</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">fichtre</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">21</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">F*ck (but less strong in French)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">foutre</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Bon Dieu</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Good Lord</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Innocent God</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Swearing on God’s innocence</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sacred God</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Swearing on God but substitute noun<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Tonnerre de Brest</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Tonnerre de Dieu</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Swearing on God’s thunder- but substitute noun<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">pardieu</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">25</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Je nie Dieu</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Denying God- total blasphemy - but <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">blurring the vital words</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Pasquedieu</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Swearing on the blood Christ shed on the cross -
but <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">blurring the sense</span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">GENERAL
VOCABULARY NOTES</span></u></b><u><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">a)La ronde = a dance performed in a circle, a square dance, a folk
dance . I thought of using the word “rondo” but that is “rondeau” in
French.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">b) De bon aloi =
honest, respectable, sound<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">c) Le franc-parler = outspokenness, speaking your mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">d) Par-là …. par-ci = here and there, all over the place<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">e) Frapper à bras raccourcis= to lay into to some-one with your
fists. The French argue among themselves the significance of
shortened arms. Perhaps the most plausible explanation is
that it means: with shortened sleeves, rolled up for the fight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">f) Défiler - pass by – flash by<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">g) Les charretiers = carters<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">h) Châtié = polished, refined<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">i) Les harengères = the fishwives- a pejorative
description as in English<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">j) Mégère = a cantankerous, evil tempered woman, a
shrew.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">k ) Poissard = vulgar, coarse<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">L) Ils ont vécu = If you say something « a vécu », you
mean that it has had its day – is a thing of the past<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">m) De profundis is a phrase for a requiem.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">SORTING
OUT THE RIGHTS AND WRONGS OF SWEARING</span></u></b><b><u><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">As I look at the Google chart of
readership of this blog, I see that Georges Brassens has followers in most
countries of the world. It is an odd thought that as they read this
song they will all relate to swearwords in their own languages with their own
distinctive forms. It is one of the mysteries of the human
psychology that swearing is an international phenomenon, as people feel the
need to punctuate their communication with apparently redundant words of anger
and revolt.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The balance of the swearwords
quoted by Brassens shows that the majority of the traditional oaths in France
derive from the religion of the population. They refer to the Christian God, to
Jesus Christ, to the Saints and to the beliefs and rituals of the Catholic
Church. By calling on our Gods, we are conforming to normal
religious practice, Christians do this in prayer. However, to do
this while swearing shows total disrespect. All well brought-up
children in Christian countries know that swearing is wrong and are frequently
admonished to wash their mouths out after transgressing. This mild,
domestic reprimand is overshadowed, however, by a much more ancient and awesome
authority. The bible tells us that when Moses received the commandments from
God, the third in importance was the injunction that the name of God should not
be taken in vain. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">It would seem that by calling on
religious forces wantonly in oaths, we are tinkering with the mighty
electricity of the universe by which God controls his creation. The
Book of Deuteronomy describes in horrific detail how the God of the Old
Testament channels his corrective discipline in the form of curses- Chapter 28
verse 15 onwards:</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But it shall come to pass, if thou
wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his
commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these
curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;">Cursed [shall be] the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the
increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep……</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;">Deu 28:28 The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and
astonishment of heart"</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Church of the rulers of the
Holy Roman Empire saw themselves as delegated to tap into these powers of the
almighty and harnessed them in ecclesiastical curses against the enemies of
their faith. A famous example is the Ernulphus curse, used by the Roman Church
in excommunications. tTis curse is quoted at some length in Lawrence
Sterne’s “Tristram Shandy”.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The common people were prohibited,
however, from calling on these powers and numerous women, who thought they had
the gift to do so, were burnt alive as witches. Under the same
ruling, the casual references to the deity in popular swearwords were also
condemned by the rulers of the Church. They were convinced that the
people’s habit of cursing, taking in vain not only God’s name but also
the beliefs and rituals of the Church impinged on the Church’s role and
diminished its prestige. Swearing was therefore strongly and
sometimes cruelly suppressed under the blasphemy laws.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Under the system of the joint
share of absolute power by Church and state in Europe it fell to the sovereign
to mete out punishment for this offence against the
Church and the sovereigns undertook this
responsibility from the 13<sup>th</sup> century until the 18<sup>th</sup> century.
Wikipedia tells that </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 14pt;">the last
person hanged for blasphemy in Great Britain was Thomas Aikenhead aged 20, in
Scotland in 1697. He was prosecuted for words which denied the veracity of the
Old Testament and the legitimacy of Christ's miracles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Below is a painting by Gerard
Hoet, dated 1728: “The Blasphemer Stoned”</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">In spite of the countermeasures,
swearing could not be wiped out. An escape which people used
in order to continue to break the religious taboos was to disguise the
religious content by mincing words or phrases or substituting different nouns
for the divine. In French these oaths are called « blasphèmes
dérivés » or « blasphèmes euphémistiques”. Brassens’ song
gives us a long list.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Ironically, it was sometimes the
sovereigns themselves, who in their compulsion to use a good curse, turned to
this neutralized language. It is said that the French king Henri IV
(1553-1610), who had the habit of using the strong derived oath “jarnidieu” –“
I deny God” was advised by his confessor, Father Coton, to
substitute his own name. As a result the sterilised oath “jarnicoton” came into
use –line 18 in Brassens’ song. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">In this song Brassens is
regretting the loss in our times of the wealth of colourful oaths used for
centuries past. The famous English writer, Robert Graves (1895-
1985) in his little book “Lars Porsena or the future of swearing (1929)”
expresses the same sentiment. Graves suggests that swearing as
an art in England reached its high water mark in the late eighteenth century at
a period when the reformed church in England was somewhat somnolent and
relaxed. He talks of the swearing duels that took place and,
probably tongue in cheek, he analyses the essence of the poetry of swearing
(page 47): <b><i>“…. the alliterative emphasis and rhythm of swearing, …
the maximum nervous reaction that can be got from a normal subject by
combinations and permutations of the oath.” </i></b>He speaks
admiringly (page 27) of those who swore “<b>luxuriantly, from
anti-institutional conviction</b>.” When I discussed this extract with my
well-read Russian daughter-in-law, she told me that there is still a strong
tradition of swearing in Russia, where it is sourced by a rich vocabulary,
which its most skilled practitioners can turn into an impressive rhetorical
art.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The gradual onset of democracy in
Europe saw the weakening of traditional prohibitions imposed by princes and
priests. Without the consciousness of breaking the awesome taboos of
an all-powerful Church, the old oaths became nothing more than standard expressions
of irritation. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Those who felt the need to
shock and express social revolt from then on found greater power in
swearwords that broke the sexual taboos. Robert Graves and
apparently Georges Brassens saw this as the moment when swearing went into
decline having lost the grandeur of its revolt. Offending a few strait-laced
persons did not compare with sniping at the ruthless dictatorial heads of
Church and state.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Brassens mentions only four
obscene words (and mild ones at that) “bougre” and “bigre” on line on line
19, “fichtre” and “foutre” on line 21. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">I became aware of the word
“foutre” immediately after I arrived in Arras to take up a post of English
assistant. I incorporated the verb with all its variants into my
active vocabulary. It was only several months later after a meeting
with the female teachers of the girls’ lycée, that I was informed that the word
I was using profusely was similar to the English word “f*ck”, which I would not
think of using in its oath form in English.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Brassens is of the opinion that
the contemporary habit of swearing using a limited number of obscene words has
destroyed the previous inventive and vivid art. He cites the
paucity of the invective of the modern hussar compared with that of hussars in
previous centuries. Robert Graves has once again exactly the same
opinion. Graves had been an army officer during the First World War
(His memoirs: “Goodbye to all that” are widely recognized as a
masterpiece). He despaired of the unimaginative monotony in the
swearing reported when soldiers appeared before him charged with
insubordination. We read on page 41 of Graves’s book:</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">"Orderly-room charges of
obscene and blasphemous language show a distressing sameness:</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“Sir, the accused called me a
f*cking c*nt” or</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“Sir, the accused called me a
f*cking prick.”</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Both Brassens and Graves believe
that swearing has had its day. Those of us who lived with it during
our military service, blasting loud and long in our ears, would not
regret its passing.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><i>D.Y. 21/06/2013</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2018 will be my year of Moliere, and I am beginning with his most Famous play "Tartuffe"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This song is the lament of an
adulterous lover, whose free-spirited lady friend has dramatically turned the
tables on him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As Georges Brassens often played this
same role, we might at first assume that the song is based on a personal experience. However, we would be doing Brassens a great
injustice, as the attitudes to love and women shown by this deserted lover
would seem to be very different from those we would associate with Brassens.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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greater length at the end of this post)</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">LA TRAÎTRESSE<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">J'en appelle à (1) la mort; je l'attends
sans frayeur ;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Je n' tiens plus à la vie ; je cherche
un fossoyeur<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Qui aurait un' tombe à vendre à n'importe
quel prix :<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">J'ai surpris ma maîtresse au bras de son
mari,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ma maîtresse, la traîtresse !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">J' croyais tenir l'amour au bout de mon
harpon,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mon p'tit drapeau flottait(2) au coeur d'
madam' Dupont,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mais tout est consommé : hier soir, au coin
d'un bois,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">J'ai surpris ma maîtresse avec son mari,
pouah !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ma maîtresse, la traîtresse !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Trouverai-je les noms, trouverai-je les
mots,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Pour noter d'infamie cet enfant de chameau(3)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Qui a choisi son époux pour tromper son
amant,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Qui a conduit l'adultère à son point
culminant ?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ma maîtresse, la traîtresse !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Où donc avais-j' les yeux ? Quoi donc
avais-j' dedans ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Pour n' pas m'être aperçu depuis un certain
temps<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Que, quand ell' m'embrassait , ell' semblait
moins goulue(4)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Et faisait des enfants qui n' me
ressemblaient plus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ma maîtresse, la traîtresse !<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Et pour bien m'enfoncer la corne(5) dans le
coeur,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Par un raffinement satanique, moqueur,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">La perfide, à voix haute, a dit à mon
endroit :<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">"Le plus cornard(6) des deux n'est point
celui qu'on croit."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ma maîtresse, la traîtresse !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">J'ai surpris les Dupont, ce couple de
marauds(7),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">En train d' recommencer leur hymen à zéro,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">J'ai surpris ma maîtresse équivoque(8),
ambiguë,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">En train d'intervertir l'ordre de ses cocus(9).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ma maîtresse, la traîtresse !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> (1960
– Album - Le mécréant,)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">THE TRAITRESS<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am calling on death – which I await calmly;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I care no more for life; I seek a
gravedigger<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Who has a tomb for sale at no matter what price:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I’ve just caught my mistress, upon her husband’s
arm,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">My mistress, the traitress!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I thought that I held love firm upon my harpoon,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">My little flag fluttered o’er Mme Dupont’s
heart,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But all that’s at an end: last night down in
the woods, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I surprised my mistress with her husband. Sick'ning!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">My mistress, the traitress!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">How shall I find the names, how shall I find
the words,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To brand with infamy this degenerate child <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Who has chosen husband to cheat upon lover,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Who has brought adultery to its utter limit<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">My mistress, the traitress!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Where had I been looking? What had got in my
eyes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">For not having noticed, that for a certain
time,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">When she was kissing me, she seemed less voracious<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And she bore babies who, no longer looked like me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">My mistress, the traitress!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And to drive the dagger deep in my foolish heart,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">With diabolical refinement, to mock me,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The perfidious one said loudly to my face:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“The worst dupe of the two isn’t the one thought
to be”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">My mistress, the traitress!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I surprised the Duponts, this couple of dropouts,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Absorbed in restarting their marriage from
scratch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I surprised my devious, two-faced mistress<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Busy reversing the order of her cuckolds<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">My mistress, the traitress!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Translation notes </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></b></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">(1)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">J'en appelle à la
mort means I call on death to strike me-
an expression of total despair<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Mon p'tit drapeau flottait au coeur d' madam' Dupont. </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">When an army conquers territory, a flag is raised over
it to show possession. This Don Juan
sees himself as a conqueror, as his later image of catching and holding a woman with
a harpoon implies. Brassens
would have been appalled by the idea of one human being possessing another.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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“Chameau” is the word for camel but, in French, it is used as an insult , to say
that some-one is a low kind of beast.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">ell' semblait
moins goulue –voracious, greedy, in this
case greedy for love.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">m'enfoncer la
corne dans le cœur – la corne is the horn of an animal. « Porter des cornes » is a common
expression in France to denote a man who is being deceived by his wife, as he
wears horns of humiliation that everyone else but the husband can see. Brassens
uses the word in the singular to make it a dagger of sexual deceit. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">(6)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Le plus cornard des deux – « Cornard » is
the adjective from the usage of “cornes” explained in note 5 above. It means therefore “cuckold”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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un maraud is a scoundrel or a rogue – someone who stretches the social
code to the limit.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">(8)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">ma maîtresse équivoque to translate the word « équivoque » my dictionary gives
me : equivocal / ambiguous or (with a sense of deception): dubious
/questionable.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">(9)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">En train d'intervertir l'ordre –” - The chauvinist male is ironically the one who
comes off worst. In this and in other
songs, e.g. “95%”, Les croquants” Brassens takes pleasure in the idea of women being
the controller in the game of love.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
irregular love life of Georges Brassens.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Some of Georges
Brassens' devoted followers are disinclined to talk about his irregular love
life. However Brassens himself had no
such inhibitions. In the biographical
film : “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pexEyHksjZs">Regard de Georges Brassens</a>" he tells us
unashamedly that he never knows love except through adultery. He explains that this is a necessary
consequence of lifestyle. He had chosen
never to marry because he wanted to write songs and not be distracted by the
domestic concerns of wife and children. (These sentiments are expressed in his song: “La
Non-demande en Mariage”.) He goes on to
say that his policy was to choose women who already had a husband but who had
got fed up with them. He says that there is a plentiful supply of them in Paris and indeed in the provinces.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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his friends comment on the number of women who made themselves available to
him, mentioning the legal outcome when they were found out. The name of Georges Brassens was often cited
as the third party in divorce cases heard in French courts one friend claims.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">However at the
same time as he knew all these girls and women, he retained his great undying love for his
<a href="http://dbarf.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/story-of-georges-brassens-and-his.html">Jeanne</a> and asserted his strong devotion to his Puppchen, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://brassenswithenglish.blogspot.co.uk/2008/02/je-me-suis-fait-tout-petit_08.html">Joha Heiman</a>, both of which relationships were</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">, true to form, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">adulterous</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">. We note that in the biographical film it is said that Brassens felt pangs of conscience with regard to Jeanne's husband, Marcel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Brassens' unconventional attitude to marriage and sexual relationships should not surprise us as he was always
the outsider to polite society. He tells us this in many of his songs - very forcefully for example in: “<a href="http://brassenswithenglish.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/la-mauvaise-herbe.html">Je suis la mauvaise herbe</a>.” </span><br />
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David Yendleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09171810352548143316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-255163588513925599.post-17014457661844566492017-06-14T17:18:00.000-07:002017-06-16T13:45:12.895-07:00La complainte des filles de joie -whose work secretly merges the social classes<div class="MsoNormal">
Although on a subject very serious to Brassens, this song
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Coming from a humble background, Brassens always took the
part of the poor and oppressed and resented the richer classes that had the
power to control the rest. One group of
the underprivileged, which he defended in a number of his songs, was that of the girls
and women who made a living by prostitution.
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In this “Lament of a prostitute”, the “filles de joie” are
presented as victims of this class conflict.
Brassens, as always, is angered by the hypocrisy of the upper classes
that denigrate street girls, while many men from their supposedly morally superior
ranks secretly use their services. In
this song, however, Brassens is amused by the irony of the merging of the
classes as a result of these brief “marriages”.
He believes that these liaisons secretly make intimate relatives of the
street girls and the snobbish kids who mock them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Les appell'nt des
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">C'est pas tous les
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Parole, parole,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">La pauvre vieille
casserole(10),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Parole, parole,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">La pauvre vieille
casserole.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Il s'en fallait de peu,
mon cher,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Que cett' putain ne fût
ta mère,(11)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Cette putain dont tu
rigoles,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Parole, parole,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Cette putain dont tu
rigoles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">On the album « Les
trompettes de la renommée » 1961<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Although
these middle class idiots </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Call
them filles de joie<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Their
life’s not a big laugh each day.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I
swear it, I swear it</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Their
life’s not a big laugh each day.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">For,
even with feet right for the job,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Pacing
the streets up and down</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">It
is tiring for spindly pins.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I
swear it, I swear it</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">It
is tiring for spindly pins.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Not
only the girls get hard corns,</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">And
soft corns but even more <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">It’s
crazy what shoes they get through.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I
swear it, I swear it</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">It’s
crazy what shoes they get through.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">There
are clients, who - dirty oafs</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Never
take dips in water</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Still
they’ve got to be cuddled, </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I
swear it, I swear it</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Still
they’ve got to be cuddled. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Whether
girls use the short cut</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">To
get them to the heights of love</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Believe
me the cash is hard-earned.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I
swear it, I swear it</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Believe
me the cash is hard-earned.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">They
are despised by the public,</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">They
are pushed around by the cops</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">And they’re under
threat of </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">the
pox. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I
swear it, I swear it</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">And they’re under
threat of </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">the
pox.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Although
they make love all their lives</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">And
marry twenty times a day.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Wedlock
isn’t theirs for the taking.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I
swear it, I swear it</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Wedlock
isn’t theirs for the taking.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">You,
son of silly and stupid,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Do
not laugh at our poor Venus,</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Poor
skeleton in the cupboard.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I
swear it, I swear it</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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skeleton in the cupboard.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">It
would’nt have taken much, m’lad,</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">For
this whore to be your mother.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">This
whore that you’re making fun of.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I
swear it, I swear it</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">This
whore that you’re making fun of.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>TRANSLATION NOTES<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ces vaches de
bourgeois – Vache is used like the noun « cow » in English as an
unpleasant word of abuse and a worthless person perhaps fat and and ugly. The word “cow” has no adjectival usage, but
the French word “vache” does have. When “vache” is used as an adjective, it tells us
that some-one is mean and unkind.
Examples in the French dictionary are: “Pas la peine d’être vache avec
moi” translated as “You don’t have to be mean with me” or “l’amour vache”
translated as “tough love”. I was
originally going to bring out the cruelty in the character failings of this
couple, but it is their stupidity that Brassens
talks of towards the end of the poem and so I accentuate that.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Filles de joie –
I keep this in my translation, because outside France it is a term well-known
for “prostitute” in a French context.
Also I need a term referring to joy as the next line says that the girl
themselves did not have much fun.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">grues - </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Grue has 3 meanings: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">A crane- the construction device for lifting weights–not applicable, of
course, here <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">A crane- the long legged bird. (See picture below)The
image may be of street girls showing of their legs, the height of which is
accentuated by high heels. </span><br />
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">A slang word for tart/prostitute.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">There is an expression in familiar speech: “faire le pied de grue”,
which, thinking about the crane bird’s movements, means flitting about the
place. Brassens may also be making a combined play on words to say these
restless feet are the feet of prostitutes. These different shades of meaning would
seem difficult to convey in translation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">4</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">) </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">les
guibolles is the slang word for « legs” like the English slang version:
“pins.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">5)
grolles is a word used in dialects for “shoes”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">6)
qu'ell's les <u>volent</u>- voler means
to steal but as in English it is used for not to give value for money e.g on n’est pas volé = you get your money’s
worth all right.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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7) </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> C’est pas pour ma fiole - This is an idiom which means “It is not for
me”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">8) </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">pécore – <span style="background: white;">Originally this word meant the little animal in a flock. This meaning is
no longer used and “pécore” is used
exclusively as an insult to say that someone is silly and stupid e.g.
Taisez-vous, petite pécore.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> In this penultimate verse, Brassens is
referring back to the middle class pair whom he addressed so contemptuously in
the first verse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> 9) Minus = This term is used to describe
some-one who is incapable and unintelligent .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> 10) </span><span style="font-size: 16px;">vieille casserole - </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Une casserole is a saucepan, an everyday domestic item. However, perhaps because a standard practical joke is to secretly tie a pan to the back of a car etc to embarrass the occupants, it is used in French for a major scandal or embarrassment e.g. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> - </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">traîner une casserole = have something to hide. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In the French dictionary, I found the
following example of the word's usage:</span></div>
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<span style="background: #f3f9ff; color: #356195; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span lang="FR" style="background: #f3f9ff; color: #356195; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; line-height: 115%;">« </span><span lang="FR" style="background: white; color: #3c3c3c; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">s'il </span><span lang="FR" style="background: #fffeef; color: #303030; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">fa</span><span lang="FR" style="background: #fffeef; color: #242424; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">u</span><span lang="FR" style="background: #fffccf; color: #181818; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">t</span><span lang="FR" style="background: #fffccf; color: #0c0c0c; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: FR;">traîner
des casseroles </span><span lang="FR" style="background: white; color: #3c3c3c; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">alors tous peuvent reprendre les anciennes
casseroles et les faire </span><span lang="FR" style="color: #3c3c3c; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">traîner à nouveau”, which translates as:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3c3c3c; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">« </span><span style="background: white; color: #3c3c3c; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">if we must be
haunted by a scandal - then all of us can drag up past scandals all over again.”</span><br />
<span style="background: white; color: #3c3c3c; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span class="apple-converted-space">This is the meaning that I have preferred but other translators stick more closely with the word "saucepan" and see it as an insult for a woman as a mere receptacle, perhaps more particularly apt for a prostitute. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="FR" style="background: white; color: #3c3c3c; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">11) </span></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Il s'en fallait de peu,
mon cher, que cett' putain ne fût ta mère.
</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This line puzzles me. If the father of
the middle class young man whom Brassens is addressing had had sex outside his
marriage, the son cold have been close to having a different belle-mère/stepmother There is little danger of mothers being
wrongly attributed as fathers traditionally are. The Ancient Greek poet, Homer had the line “…they
tell me that I am the son of Odysseus, but it is a wise child that knows his
own father. Shakespeare had the line in
the Merchant of Venice Act 2 Scene 2:It is a wise father that knows his on
child.” Even in this age of gender
equality, it is difficult to adapt it to “It is a wise child who knows its own
mother”, as Brassens seems to imply.</span><span style="color: #3c3c3c; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
David Yendleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09171810352548143316noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-255163588513925599.post-5354713915591134992017-06-04T16:12:00.000-07:002017-07-07T15:21:14.101-07:00Le bistro- unflattering description of a favourite meeting place<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We know the name and location of the bistro that Brassens describes in this song. It is called "<strong><span lang="FR" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%;">Aux Sportifs Réunis" and it is situated opposite the "</span></strong><strong><span lang="FR" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%;">parc Georges Brassens" (Paris 15e) Below is a photo:</span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><strong><span lang="FR" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%;">It was owned by </span></strong><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt;">Yanek (Jean) Walczak. He was originally a miner and took up boxing in his youth. During the Occupation, he won the title of amateur light-weight champion. He became a professional boxer in 1947 and the peak of his achievement was winning was winning the welter-weight championship of France. He fought the best in the world. In 1948, he fought his friend the legendary Marcel Cerdan for the French Middle weight title but was knocked out. He had fights in the U.S. and fought the greatest boxer in the world, Sugar Ray Robinson three times in 1950-1951.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt;">After Robinson knocked him out in June 1951 Walczak retired from the ring and opened his restaurant in Paris. It was a place where he could meet up with his friends locally. The bistrot was frequented by famous personalities, including Edith Piaf and Georges Brassens, who lived close by in this unfashionable quarter. His son tells us that his father was a well-liked host, who always enjoyed a good laugh.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt;">It is said that Brassens was no longer welcome at </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"</span><strong style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="FR" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18.4px;">Aux Sportifs Réunis"</span></strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> after publishing "Le bistrot" in 1960, but that is perhaps only the natural conclusion that anyone would make after hearing the song. This may not be true, however, and evidence will be provided later in this post.</span><br />
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Le Bistrot<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dans un coin pourri<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Du pauvre Paris,(1)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sur une place,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">L'est un vieux bistrot<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Tenu par un gros<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dégueulasse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Si t'as le bec fin,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">S'il te faut du vin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">D’ première classe,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Va boire à Passy,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Le nectar d'ici<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Te dépasse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mais si t'as l'gosier<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Qu'une armure d'acier<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Matelasse,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Goûte à ce velours,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ce petit bleu(2), lourd<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">De menaces.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Tu trouveras là,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">La fine fleur de la<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Populace,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Tous les marmiteux(3),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">De la place,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Comme des harengs,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Voir en face<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">La belle du bistrot,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">La femme à ce gros<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dégueulasse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Que je boive à fond<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">L'eau de toutes les
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">-taines Wallace,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Si dès aujourd'hui<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Par la grâce<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Un palace,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Avec ses appas,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Du haut jusqu'en bas,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Bien en place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Qui les embrasse, qui<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Les enlace ?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Vraiment, c'en est trop
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Tout ça pour ce gros<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dégueulasse !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Mais que voulez-vous<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Qu'on y fasse ?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">L'amour se fait vieux,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Il a plus les yeux<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Bien en face.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Tâche que les discours<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ne l'agacent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sois poli, mon gars,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Pas de geste ou ga-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">-re à la casse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Car sa main qui claqu’e,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Punit d'un flic-flac<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Les audaces.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Certes, il n'est pas né<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Qui mettra le nez<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dans sa tasse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Pas né, le chanceux<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Qui dégèl'ra ce<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Bloc de glace,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Qui fera dans l'dos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Les cornes à ce gros<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dégueulasse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dans un coin pourri<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Du pauvre Paris,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sur une place,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Une espèce de fée,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">D'un vieux bouge, a
fait<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Un palace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Album;- "Le Mécréant" 1960<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In a run-down spot<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Of the poor Paree<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">On a square<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Stands an old bistro<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">That’s run by a man<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Fat and gross<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">If your palates’s fine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">If you must have wine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Very top class<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Go t’drink in Passy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The nectar served here’s<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Beyond you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">But if you’ve a gullet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">That’s armoured with <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Steel plating<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Taste this little blue<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Velvety, heavy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">With menace<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">You’ll find them here<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The elite of the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Populace<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">All the bedraggled<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Calamitous folk from<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Round about<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Who come in shoals<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">As of herrings<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">To see up close <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The pub’s fair lady <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The wife of this man<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Fat and gross.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">May I drink dry all <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Of the Paris Wallace fountains <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">If from this day on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">You are not seduced<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">By the grace<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Of this fair siren<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Who from a slum made <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">A palace<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">With her female charms<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">From top to bottom,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nicely arranged<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">These matchless treasures<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Who kisses them, who<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Fondles them?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In truth it’s too bad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">All that for this man<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Fat and gross <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It’s unjust and mad<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">But what do you expect <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">To be done?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Cupid’s getting old<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">His eyes can’t see straight<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Any more<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">If fancying her<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Try talk that doesn’t<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Annoy her<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Be polite my lad<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">No grope or beware<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The rough stuff<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">(4) </span><span style="font-size: 16px;"> calamiteux- </span><span style="font-size: 16px;">My French dictionary tells me that this adjective means: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;">catastrophic,
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A later photograph shows Brassens and Walczac sitting happily together at the restaurant of<span style="text-align: center;"> Pierre Vedel. </span><span style="text-align: center;">Walczack </span><span style="text-align: center;">is sitting to the
right of </span><span style="text-align: center;">Brassens. In spite of the latter's insults, it might seem that</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">the former boxer's face is quite presentable and he is not too overweight. Probably the song would have been acceptable in their group as it was recognised as massive exaggeration intended to provoke but not too seriously- which Brassens often enjoyed doing.</span></span></div>
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David Yendleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09171810352548143316noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-255163588513925599.post-6496755623482359092017-05-30T02:18:00.001-07:002017-06-02T05:11:58.620-07:00Le temps ne fait rien à l'affaire-link of age/wisdom humorously denied <div class="MsoNormal">
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Qui n´le niez pas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Prenez les papas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pour des cons<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Vous, les cons âgés<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Les cons usagés<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Les vieux cons<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Qui, confessez-le(4)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Prenez les p´tits bleus<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pour des cons<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Méditez l´impartial
message<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">D´un type qui balance
entre deux âges<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Le temps ne fait rien à
l´affaire<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Quand on est con, on est
con<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Qu´on ait vingt ans, qu´on
soit grand-père<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Quand on est con, on est
con<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Entre vous, plus de
controverses<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cons caducs ou cons
débutants<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Petits cons d´la dernière
averse<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Vieux cons des neiges
d´antan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Time doesn’t come into it at all</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When they are brand new</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When they come from the egg</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The cocoon</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All the young newcomers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Take old blokes</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just for fools.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When they’ve become</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hoary headed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Old persons</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All the old stagers</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Take the young ones</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just for fools</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I, balancing at middle age</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’m sending them all a message</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Time doesn’t come into it at all</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When you're a fool, you're a fool</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whether twenty, or a grandad</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When you're a fool, you're a fool</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No more arguments between you </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ageing fools or fools just starting</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Little fools who came with the last shower</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Old fools of yesteryear’s snows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You, the fools new-born</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The innocent fools</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The young fools</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Who - don’t deny it</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Take your dads </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just for fools</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You, the fools grown old</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fools who’ve had long wear</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The old fools</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Who, confess it’s true,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Take the lit’le rookies</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just for fools</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ponder the impartial message</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From a guy balancing at middle age</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Time doesn’t come into it at all<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When you're a fool, you're a fool<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whether twenty, or a grandad<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When you're a fool, you're a fool<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No more arguments between you <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ageing fools or fools just starting<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Little fools who came with the last shower<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Old fools of yesteryear’s snows.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<h2>
<b><span lang="FR" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">TRANSLATION
NOTES</span></b></h2>
<b><span lang="FR" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></b></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">1)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> Con - This is a word that recurs very often in
this song. Both French and English have
a monosyllabic word beginning with “c” to designate vulgarly the female
genitals. In both countries this word is also used to refer to a fellow
human being insultingly. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Nevertheless,
It is a mistake for translators to assume that the word “con” in the French
text can be automatically replaced by “cunt” in the English translation. In the cultures of the two countries, the
words have different usages and also a dfferent status.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">French
Wikipedia clearly explains the French usage of “con”. it tells us that the adjective “con” describes
some-one who is stupid, naïve or unpleasant.
These same characteristics are
expressed in derivatives of the word.
For example, the word “connerie” describes a stupid mistake or stupidity
in general. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">The word “con”
can have a somewhat relaxed status and can sometimes be used humorously in
everyday society, especially in the South of France. We can see that, perhaps
typically, the southerner, Georges Brassens, freely bats the word around like a
ping pong ball in this song.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">While the
essential meaning of “con” is stupidity,
this is not true of the English usage of the word “cunt”. Its basic meaning is a very unlikeable person. This person is not necessarily stupid and if you wish to include this defect, you have to add an adjective and say:
“He (or she) is a stupid cunt”. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span>
<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">The word “cunt” has a much more offensive status than the french "con"., perhaps due to its
aggressive application. It should not therefore be used flippantly in normal everyday society. When talking about sex light-heartedly in more
polite society a gentler , nicer sounding, popular word is used - for example "fanny".<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Translators
who use the word “cunt”in their English version of “Le temps ne fait rien à
l’affaire” will find the basic meaning of the song gets confused. it is about getting wiser not getting nicer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">2)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><u>Qu’on</u></b> ait vingt ans, qu’on soit grand-père - Brassens
has fun in choosing vocabulary that
includes the theme word of his song.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">3)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>Con</b></span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">troverses - that syllable again <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="FR" style="color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">4)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="FR" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>con</b></span><span lang="FR" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">fessez-le – that syllable again. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>FOOTNOTE</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A photo that accompanies
the Wikipedia article shows the relaxed attitude to the word in France. The caption explains that some people enjoy
the game of changing a poster or road sign to obtain the word “con”.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%;">I am conscious that, in my
translation, I have given no indication of the provocative game that Brassens
was playing in composing this song. He was seeing how many times he could use the word “con” in these few lines.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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David Yendleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09171810352548143316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-255163588513925599.post-47288586041340342692017-05-18T14:59:00.002-07:002022-06-02T14:34:49.154-07:00La Religieuse - Male fantasies aroused by a beautiful nun<div class="MsoNormal">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">"La religieuse"is the song which gave the title to the album which Brassens released in 1969.</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This song may cause offence through
its sexual content and also Brassens’ typical disrespect for organised religion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The girl who is the subject of this
song had had her head shaven on becoming a nun, with the aim of erasing her
beauty and the sexual allure that that implied.
The charms of her body had been hidden for life in a shapeless black robe
down to the floor. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">However on Sundays, when she attended
mass, she wore the striking headgear which some orders of nuns had contrived
to introduce in spite of the obvious vanity.
This enhanced the beautiful face with which she had been gifted. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The effects of this untouchable woman of
mystery on the imaginations of the men (and boys) in the congregation are
vividly described. These reactions were certainly not in keeping with the aims of religious authorities who
might seek to repress human sexuality.</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">In this song Brassens contrasts the lurid vitality of human imagination with a cold,sterile reality.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">I think that students of French language will appreciate the clarity of this recording made by Manuel Hernandez in June 2015</span></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Tous les cœurs se
rallient à sa blanche cornette(1),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Si le chrétien succombe
à son charme insidieux,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Le païen le plus sûr,
l'athée le plus honnête<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Se laisseraient aller
parfois à croire en Dieu.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Et les enfants de
choeur font tinter leur sonnette...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Il paraît que dessous
sa cornette fatale,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Qu'elle arbore(2) à la
messe avec tant de rigueur,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Cette petite soeur
cache, c'est un <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">scandale!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Une queue de cheval et
des accroche-cœurs(3).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Et les enfants de
choeur s'agitent dans les stalles(4)...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Il paraît que, dessous
son gros habit de bure(5),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Elle porte coquettement
des bas de soie,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Festons, frivolités,
fanfreluches, guipures(6),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Enfin, tout ce qu'il
faut pour que le Diable y soit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Et les enfants de
choeur ont des pensées <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">impures...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Il paraît que le soir,
en voici bien d'une autre !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">(7)</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">À l'heure où ses
consoeurs sont sagement couchées<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Ou débitent pieusement
des patenôtres,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Elle se déshabille
devant sa psyché.(8)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Et les enfants de
choeur ont la fièvre, les pauvres...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Il paraît qu'à loisir
elle se mire nue,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">De face, de profil, et
même, hélas ! de dos,(9)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Après avoir, sans gêne,
accroché sa tenue<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Aux branches de la
croix comme au portemanteau.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Chez les enfants de
choeur le Malin s'insinue...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Il paraît que, levant
au ciel un oeil complice,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Ell' dit : "Bravo,
Seigneur, c'est du joli travail !"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Puis qu'elle ajoute
avec encor' plus de malice :<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">"La cambrure des
reins, ça, c'est une <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">trouvaille !"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Et les enfants de
choeur souffrent un vrai supplice...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Il paraît qu'à minuit,
Bonne Mère, c'est pire :<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">On entend se mêler,
dans d'étranges accords,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">La voix énamourée des
anges qui soupirent<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Et celle de la soeur
criant "Encore ! Encore !"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Et les enfants de
choeur, les malheureux, transpirent...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Et monsieur le curé,
que ces bruits turlupinent,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Se dit avec raison que
le brave Jésus<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Avec sa tête, hélas !
déjà chargée d'épines,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">N'a certes pas besoin
d'autre chose dessus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Et les enfants de
choeur, branlant du chef(10), opinent...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Tout ça, c'est des faux
bruits, des ragots, des sornettes,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">De basses calomnies par
Satan répandues.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Pas plus
d'accroche-coeurs sous la blanche cornette<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Que de queue de cheval,
mais un crâne tondu.(11)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Et les enfants de
choeur en font, une binette(12)...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Pas de troubles
penchants dans ce coeur rigoriste,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Sous cet austère habit,
pas de rubans suspects.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">On ne verra jamais la
corne au front du Christ (13)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Le veinard sur sa croix
peut s'endormir en paix,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Et les enfants de
choeur se masturber (14), tout tristes...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Album La religieuse (1969)</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Georges Brassens</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">All hearts are won over by her nun’s white cornette,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">If the Christian succumbs to its insidious
charm,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">The staunchest pagan, the most open atheist<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Would sometimes go as far as believing
in God<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">And young choristers make their little bells
tinkle.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">It appears that under her fatal cornette<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Which she shows off at mass with so much rigour,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">This little sister hides, it’s a scandal! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">A pony tail and several kiss-curls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">And the young choristers get worked up in their
pews<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">It appears that under her loose homespun<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">nun’s robe,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">She wears seductively stockings of silk<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Scallops, fancy items, frills and flounces,
guipures<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">In short all it takes for the devil to be
there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">And the young choristers get thoughts that
are impure.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">It appears that at night, here’s a very big shock!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">When her fellow nuns properly are tucked in
bed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Or piously
reciting their Pater Nosters<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">She takes off her clothes before her
full-length mirror.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">And the choristers’ temperatures soar, poor
lads.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">It seems she takes her time gazing at herself nude,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Full frontal, in profile even alas rear-view,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">After hanging her outfit with no inhibition<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">On the arms of the cross as if on a coat-stand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">With the choristers the Devil sneaks himself
in…..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">It seems, raising a knowing eye up to heaven<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">She says: ”Well done Lord, that’s a fine piece
of work!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Seems that then she adds, even more
mischievously:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">The curve of the behind is something special<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">And the choristers experience real torture.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">It seems, at midnight Holy Mother, things
get worse:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">One hears blending together in strange harmonies<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">The love-stricken voice of angels who are
sighing ,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">And that of the Sister yelling “Again!
Again!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">And the wretched choristers, break into a
sweat.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">And the reverend priest who’s disturbed
by these noises<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Tells himself quite rightly that the good lord
Jesus<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">With his head, alas, already laden with
thorns<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Certainly does not need anything else put on
it <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">And the shuddering choir nod their heads in
agreement.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">All this talk is false rumour, nonsense, balderdash,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">The basest of slander spread around by Satan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">No more are there kiss curls beneath the
white cornette<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Than any pony tail, but a skull shaven bald<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">And the young choristers screw their faces at that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">No dark inclinations in this rigorist heart<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">Beneath this austere robe no suspicious
ribbons<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">One will never see horns on the forehead
of Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">The lucky fellow on his cross can sleep in
peace<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">And the choir-boys, glumly, can do it for themselves...</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This is Brassens singing the song in concert at the Bobino in 1969</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">La religieuse
Translation Notes</span></h3>
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of certain orders of nuns, pictured previously. In this first line, Brassens is
making play with a famous rallying cry in French history. Before the battle of Ivry in 1590, Henry of
Navarre’s rallying cry was “Ralliez-vous à mon panache blanc”. Se rallier à means to join/ change sides to a
certain cause.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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hair worn over the the forehead or temple, which my French source tells me is a
traditional device of sexual seduction.
The same source gave me the picture below.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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choirs sit in choir “stalls” but, because of the previous mention of horses, I prefer to say “pews” realising that there is
the same dual meaning of “stall”in French
and my fear of the distraction of a false association might be
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for the frock worn by clergy. Thus “porter
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en voici bien d'une autre ! </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">This is an
expression to prepare for a surprising revelation about to be made.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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This word has two meanings in French. Firstly, it is the name given to the long
mirrors which tilt on a pivot, used for example in fashion shops. Secondly as used by Brassens here, there is a
reference to the derivation of the word.
In Greek mythology, Psyche was a woman of exceptional beauty. The young nun is therefore gazing at her own
striking beauty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that Brassens particularly admired the well- rounded female bottom see "<a href="http://brassenswithenglish.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/venus-callipyge-this-song-was-inspired.html">Venus callipyge</a>"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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la tête » means to nod your head in agreement. “Branler la tête/ branler du chef” mean to
shake/ wag your head. Some French
commentators say that Brassens is suggesting the choir boys were shaking something else.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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crâne tondu- The heads of nuns are shaven bald. We note the outrage that Brassens always felt
to see those in power hurting the susceptible or the helpless and we think of his song: “<a href="http://brassenswithenglish.blogspot.co.uk/2009/03/la-tondue.html">La Tondue</a>”</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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les enfants de choeur en font, une binette. – In normal usage une binette is a
garden tool – a hoe. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">However in familiar language, it is an alternative word (unflattering
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- As the little nun obeys her nun’s vows strictly, there is no question of her
being unfaithful to her husband Jesus Christ.
When a girl or woman becomes a nun she undergoes a ceremony of marriage
to Jesus Christ, wearing a wedding dress and wedding ring, lying prostrate on
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husband, they say that her unfortunate partner « porte des cornes » -
that is he wears horns. Why is the image
relevant? It is said that when a wife is
unfaithful the last person to realise it is the husband. Thus the deceived husband walks around with
horns on his head but everyone sees them but the victim. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the start that the excited choirboys might be doing something private under
their cassocks and might have appreciated it as a gentle suggestion.. However here in the last line Brassens
deliberately shocks us by telling us bluntly what had been going on. Some of us
translators would prefer to keep the ambiguity and I am taking that liberty in
my translation, but readers should suit themselves according to their personal
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1951, when the popular young singer Patachou sang his songs at her cabaret, She called the composer </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">up onto the stage to sing - a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">nervous young man with a big moustache. The audience immediately recognised his talent and greeted him with acclaim </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Patachou and Brassens </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">sang this song "Maman Papa" </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">in duet </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">on Brassens' first ever</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> recording in 1952. It was issued on on a 78 r.p.m. disc and their accompaniment was the orchestra of Leo Clarens. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">It was through Patachou that he had met the bass player, Pierre Nicolas, an accomplished musician. He was to become Brassens' long- serving accompanist, who gave him the solid support he needed to perform in public - always an ordeal for Brassens.</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Maman,(1) maman, en
faisant cette chanson,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Maman, maman, je r'deviens
petit garçon,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Alors je suis sage en
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Et, pour te fair' plaisir,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">J'obtiens les meilleures
places,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ton désir.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Maman, maman, je préfère à
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Maman, maman, demeurer sur
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Et, sans un mot dire,
entendre tes refrains charmants,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Maman, maman, maman,
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Et je t'entends sous
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pour redonner du courage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A nos cœurs lourds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Papa, papa, il n'y eut pas
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Papa, papa, papa, papa.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Maman, papa, toujours je
regretterai,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Maman, papa, de vous avoir
fait pleurer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Au temps où nos cœurs ne
se comprenaient encor' pas,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Maman, papa, maman, papa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mama, Daddy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mama, Mama, while doing this song,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mama, Mama, I become a little boy again,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So, I am good at school</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And to make you happy,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I get awarded the top marks,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What you want.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mama, Mama, I prefer to silly games, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mama, Mama, remaining on your lap,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And, with no word said from me, hearing your charming songs,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mama, Mama, Mama, Mama.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Daddy, Daddy, while doing this song,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Daddy, Daddy, I become a little boy again </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And I hear you mid the
storm</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Use all your sense of fun</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To restore some courage</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To heavy hearts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Daddy, Daddy, there never was between us,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Daddy, Daddy, tenderness or sweet words,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yet we loved each other, though never was it avowed,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Daddy, Daddy, Daddy, Daddy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mama, Daddy, while doing this song,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mama, Daddy, I become a little boy again,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And, thanks to this artifice,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All at once I know</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What your sacrifices cost you,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My parents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mama, Daddy, I will always be sorry,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mama, Daddy, to have made you both cry</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At a time when hearts still misunderstood each other,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mama Daddy, Mama, Daddy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The autobiographical content of this song</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This is a very different and a very special Brassens song. It is the first song that Brassens wrote, having been composed at the work camp in Basford in 1943. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">It is a plain and simple expression of deep personal sentiment. It cannot be anything else, because he is telling his parents of his unending feelings of love and gratitude towards them and apologising to them for his public misconduct in a wild period of adolescence. This behaviour disgraced the family and caused them so much distress and pain. I have told the story of this incident in a short biography at <span style="background: rgb(255 , 249 , 231); border: 1pt none; color: #00838f; padding: 0cm;"><a href="http://dbarf.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/story-of-georges-brassens-and-his.html">The story of Georges Brassens and his Jeanne</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Translation
notes<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">1)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><b>Maman</b>
-<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> In Britain, at least, children of different social class have
different names for their mothers. “Mamma”
(Pronounced “Mammah) is for the very posh.
“Mummy” is very middle class. “Mum”
or Mam” are used by the lower classes, to which the </span><span style="font-size: 16px; text-indent: 0cm;">Brassens </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0cm;">family belonged,
but the words are not in the least poetic sounds and so some compromise is required.</span></span><br />
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]--><b>Humour</b>
– The English word “Humour” has two different meanings that are
translated by two different words in French: “Humeur” amd “Humour”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">English meaning One =
Sense of fun - translated in French “l’Humour” e.g “Il n’a pas le sens de l’humour
= He has no sense of humour. - Je ne vois pas où est l’humour = “I don’t see
anything funny in that.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">English meaning Two =
Mood or temper- translated in French “l’Humeur” e.g. “être de bonne/mauvaise
humeur to be in a good/bad temper.- Il n’est pas d’humeur à étudier = He is in no mood to study.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">3)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]--><b>Artifice</b>-
The artifice is for him to become a young child again to know these existing
emotions as a grown man.</span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Patachou (1915 -2015)</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Patachou, whose real name was Henriette Ragon, was born in 12<sup>th</sup><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>arrondissement of Paris in 1915. First working as a secretary, she was forced
during the war to work in a factory,where she met her future husband, Pierre
Billon. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The war over, in 1948, the couple bought a cake shop/tea shop,
close to La Place du Tertre in Monmartre, adding a restaurant for which they
engaged an accordionist to lead their customers in song.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It was soon noticed that the patronne had a very good voice, and
one customer, Maurice Chevalier, encouraged her to do take up singing. This she did using the nickname that
Henriette had been given earlier “Lady Patachou”. Her first concert tour was
great success and she recorded her first record in 1950.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Their restaurant became a real cabaret which hosted many
contemporary stars. We have told of the arrival
of Georges Brassens there already.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">By the mid-1950s she was a popular singer, appearing at major
venues not only across France but in Britain and America- North and South.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">At this time she was also enticed into filming, appearing in
Renoir’s “French Cancan” in 1954.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">After years of successful international concert tours, she began
in the early 1980s to concentrate more on acting both in cinema and on
television appearing in 14 productions between 1986 and 2003.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">She died on the 30<sup>th</sup> April 2015 shortly after her
hundredth birthday<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Patachou was one of the outstanding personalities in French show
business in the second half of the 20<sup>th</sup> century. Her particular gift was a vibrant singing
voice and her ability to convey the dramatic undertones.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">She was for decades the ambassadress of French song and so I was
amazed when I put together these biographical notes
that the Internet was assailing me with reports about her "<b>banned</b>
song".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This was a
song called either “La Chose” or "Les ratés de la Bagatelle", which
she recorded in 1959, but which was banned on French radio because the subject
was different ways of making love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In fact this
is a gently amusing song that would not shock a modern audience. I am using it
to illustrate the art of the great Patachou.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Y a ceux qui font la
chose<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">En regardant l' plafond<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ou en comptant les
mouches <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Qui sont su' l'
guéridon<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Y a ceux qui font la
chose <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">En pensant à l'argent<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Et ceux qui n' pensent
à rien <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Parce que c'est
fatigant.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Y a ceux qui font la
chose <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">En s' demandant
pourquoi <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Et ceux qui font la
chose <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Comme s'ils étaient en
bois<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span>
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ceux qui pendant la
chose <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0cm;">Se mettent à bégayer</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Et qui s'étonnent après
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">D'avoir des quintuplés<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Y a ceux qui font la
chose <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">En chantant une chanson
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">En battant la mesure <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">En tapant du talon<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Y a ceux qui font la
chose <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Toujours un peu
distants <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Parce que c'est l' seul
moyen <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Pour avoir des enfants<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ceux qui pendant la
chose <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0cm;">Poussent des cris
violents</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Pour que les voisins
croient <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Qu'ils passent un bon
moment<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Y a ceux qui font la
chose <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sans passion ni désir <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Parce que c'est le seul
truc <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Qui fasse vraiment
maigrir<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Y a ceux qui font la
chose <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Pour battre des records
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Tous ceux dont les
appâts <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ne sont qu'un livre
d'or.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Y a ceux qui font la
chose <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0cm;">Avec des accessoires</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Qu'ont besoin d'une
trompette <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ou bien d'une balançoire<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ceux qui lorsque la
chose<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Est déjà terminée<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Se demandent si la
chose <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Va bientôt commencer<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Y a ceux qui font la
chose <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Pas pour les sensations
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Une seule fois dans
l'année <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Pour les allocations<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ils ont l'oeil triste, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">le cou tendu <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Les ratés de la
bagatelle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Ils font la chose en
pardessus <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Les ratés du fruit
défendu<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Car tous ceux à qui<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">La chose ne fait rien <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">N'aiment pas ceux à qui
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">La chose fait du bien<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">There are those who do the thing <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 2.85pt; margin-right: 2.85pt; margin-top: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Looking at the ceiling<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 2.85pt; margin-right: 2.85pt; margin-top: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Or counting the flies<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 2.85pt; margin-right: 2.85pt; margin-top: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Which are on the coffee table<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 2.85pt; margin-right: 2.85pt; margin-top: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 2.85pt; margin-right: 2.85pt; margin-top: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">There are those who do the thing <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 2.85pt; margin-right: 2.85pt; margin-top: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thinking about money<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 2.85pt; margin-right: 2.85pt; margin-top: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And those who think of nothing <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 2.85pt; margin-right: 2.85pt; margin-top: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Because it's tiring.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 2.85pt; margin-right: 2.85pt; margin-top: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 2.85pt; margin-right: 2.85pt; margin-top: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">There are those who do the thing <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 2.85pt; margin-right: 2.85pt; margin-top: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">While they’re wondering why<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 2.85pt; margin-right: 2.85pt; margin-top: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And those who do the thing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 2.85pt; margin-right: 2.85pt; margin-top: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">As if they’re in the woods <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 2.85pt; margin-right: 2.85pt; margin-top: 0cm;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">There are those who do the thing <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I was
exploring the theme of lost childhood in the Brassens song, “Les châteaux de
sable,” when I came across (<i>Link</i>) <a href="http://dbarfeducation.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/mistral-gagnant-renaud-1998-sung-by-le.html">Lara Fabian’s dramatic performance</a> of another French
song on the same theme: Renaud’s “Mistral gagnant”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I was
very impressed by the personal feeling that she conveyed through her singing
style. The emotional impact became even
more powerful in a second video of hers that I found. The song was “Je t’aime”, in which, with
uninhibited frankness, she is telling us of the complications of her passionate
love life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Je
t’aime” is a powerful plea to her lover.
She reminds him how she and he had formed a deep bond, so that each was
promised to the other. Their love was sealed by the deep confidentiality of
body and spirit that welds a couple for ever.
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">However,
she confesses that angry quarrels had begun to break out between them. Some of these had become violent with objects
being thrown and wine glasses smashed to smithereens. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">At
first they had been able to end these rows with the reconciliation available
through powerful mutual sexual desire.
Yet the problems between them continued to grow. There were “silences” - periods when they
were not on speaking terms - and a total break up threatened. To save them from this, Lara Fabian declares
the depth of her love, with the loud and repeated cry: - “Je t’aime”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In my
previous blog, I posted a recording at a concert in Hungary. There the emotionality of the female audience
was astounding and they took the song over from her. I am posting this time a quieter video so
that Lara Fabian’s words are not lost.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: FR;">D'accord, il existait d'autres facons de se quitter<br />
Quelques éclats de verres auraient peut- être pu nous aider<br />
Dans ce silence amer.<br />
J'ai décidé de pardonner les erreurs <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Qu'on peut faire trop s'aimer<br />
<br />
<br />
D'accord la petite fille en moi souvent te reclamait<br />
Presque comme une mère, tu me bordais, me protégeais<br />
Je t'ai volé ce sang qu'on n'aurait pas dû partager<br />
A bout de mots, de rêves je vais crier<br />
(refrain)<br />
Je t'aime, je t'aime</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: FR;"><br />
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Comme un fou comme un soldat<br />
Comme une star de cinéma<br />
Je t'aime, je t'aime<br />
Comme un loup, comme un roi<br />
Comme un homme que je ne suis pas<br />
Tu vois, je t'aime comme ça<br />
<br />
D'accord, je t'ai confié tous mes sourires Tous mes secrets<br />
Même ceux, dont un frère est le gardien inavoué<br />
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Dans cette maison de pierre<br />
Satan nous regardait danser<br />
J'ai tant voulu la guerre<br />
De corps qui se faisaient la paix<br />
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(refrain)<br />
Je t'aime, je t'aime<br />
Comme un fou comme un soldat<br />
Comme une star de cinema<br />
Je t'aime, je t'aime<br />
<br />
<br />
Comme un loup, comme un roi<br />
Comme un homme que je ne suis pas<br />
Tu vois, je t'aime comme ca<br />
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Tu vois, je t'aime comme ca<br />
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-Je t'aime - Je t'aime - Je t'aime><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">I agree there
existed other ways for us to part<br />
A few wine glasses smashed could perhaps have helped us<br />
In that silence bitter.<br />
I’ve decided to forgive the mistakes, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">One can make when too
in love.<br />
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I agree, the little girl in me was often demanding<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">You, almost like a
mother, tucked me in, watched over me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">I stole from you
that blood, we ought never have shared<br />
At a loss for words, for dreams, I’ll cry out<br />
(refrain)<br />
I love you, I love you<br />
<br />
Like a fool, like a soldier<br />
A star in the cinema <br />
I love you, I love you<br />
Like a wolf, like a king<br />
Like a man I cannot be<br />
You see, that’s how I love you.<br />
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I agree, I entrusted you all my smiles, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">All my secrets<br />
Even those of which a brother Is the secret guardian.<br />
<br />
Within that house of stone,<br />
Satan looked on us as we danced<br />
I desired so much the war<br />
Of bodies that would bring the peace<br />
<br />
(refrain)<br />
I love you, I love you<br />
Like a fool, like a soldier<br />
A star in the cinema<br />
I love you, I love you<br />
<br />
<br />
Like a wolf, like a king<br />
Like a man I cannot be<br />
You see, that’s how I love you.<br />
<br />
You see, that’s how I love you. .<br />
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- I love You - I love You - I love You<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This later song tells us that her
appeal to her former lover, which we saw above, had been unsuccessful and that
he is now with another woman. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In the words that Lara speaks as an
introduction to video below, she tells us that new songs come to her through some mystical inspiration that she does not understand and that in this process there can be a sense of enlightenment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In this case she had achieved a new understanding of how she could cope with the shattering of her romantic dreams She realised that </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">although her love had
been stolen from her by the betrayal of a sacred promise, there was a device by
which they could clear the bitterness and recriminations that had poisoned their
great love since they broke up. This
device was forgiveness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">By forgiving, she can avoid the torment
of seeking why it had all happened, of conjuring up visions of her rival’s looks, of picturing
what her past lover was now doing and how he was making love with another woman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">By forgiveness she can dispel the
negatives, so that she can retain the beauty of her past love, which will live on in her heart as something more
than a betrayal – un voeu brisé</span> .<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Tell me her
name<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I want to know <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The way she
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And where you
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I need to see
her face <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I need to
understand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Why you and I
came to an end<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Tell me again<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I want to hear<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Who broke my
faith in all these years <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Who lies with
you at night <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">When I'm here
all alone <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Remembering
when I was your own.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Chorus<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I'll let you go<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I'll let you
fly<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Why do I keep
on asking why<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I'll let you go<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Now that I
found<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A way to keep
somehow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">More than a
broken vow<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Tell me the
words I never said <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Show me the
tears you never shed <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Give me the
touch<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">That once you
promised to be mine <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Or has it
vanished for all time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">[Chorus]<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I'll let you go<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I'll let you
fly<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Why do I keep
on asking why<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I'll let you go<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Now that I
found<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A way to keep
somehow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">More than a
broken vow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I close my eyes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And dream of
you and I <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And then I
realize<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">There's more to
life than only bitterness and lies<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I close my eyes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I'd give away
my soul<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To hold you
once again<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">And never let
this promise end<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Chorus<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I'll let you go<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I'll let you
fly<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Why do I keep
on asking why <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I'll let you go<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Now that I
found<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A way to keep
somehow <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">More than a
broken vow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">SONGWRITERS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">WALTER
AFANASIEFF, LARA FABIAN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dis-moi son nom<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">J'ai besoin de comprendre -<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Pour toi et moi c'est tout fini<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dis-moi encore <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Je veux entendre <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Qui a brisé ma confiance en toutes ces
années <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Qui couche avec toi la nuit <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Quand je suis là toute seule <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Me souvenant de quand j'étais tienne.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[Refrain] <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Je te laisserai partir <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Je te laisserai voler <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Pourquoi je tiens </span>à savoir pourquoi. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Je te laisserai partir <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Maintenant que j'ai trouvé <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Quelque mode de garder <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Plus qu'un vœu brisé<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dis-moi les mots que je n'ai jamais dits</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
Montre-moi les larmes qu’ tu n'as pas
versées<br />
Rend-moi la caresse, promise a moi <br />
Ou a-t-elle disparu à jamais<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[Refrain] <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Je te laisserai partir <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Je te laisserai voler <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Pourquoi je tiens </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">à savoir pourquoi.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Je te laisserai partir</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Maintenant que j'ai trouvé <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Quelque mode de garder <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Plus qu'un vœu brisé<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Je ferme les yeux <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Que la vie a mieux que l'amertume –
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Je ferme les yeux <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Je sacrific’rais mon âme<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Pour te tenir encore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[Refrain] <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Je te laisserai partir <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Je te laisserai voler <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Pourquoi je tiens </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">à savoir pourquoi.</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Maintenant que j'ai trouvé <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";"><b><u>Recent comment on this
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";"><i>wildmustang67 2 months ago</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">The most genuine and
perfect singer I've ever listened to.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";"><i>Mujan 2 weeks ago</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">I always cry when I
listen to this song as it reminds me of my hubby when he was still alive and
with his frequent womanising. How I hated him but I’ve loved him so much that I
always tried to give him endless chances to make it up with me. He died and I met
the mistress at his funeral. I have forgiven him and now I am married to a very
loyal and faithful man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As a
male heart is equally likely to be broken with the breakup of a great romance,
here is Josh Groban singing Lara Fabian’s
song:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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David Yendleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09171810352548143316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-255163588513925599.post-33966024528704360482016-08-06T13:39:00.001-07:002017-09-02T14:35:59.978-07:00Cupidon s'en fout - A promising romantic date that falls flat<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This song appeared in Brassens’ album « Don Juan »
in 1972. Four years earlier, he had dealt with the problem of the
inequalities of passion of partners when making love in his song:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span> “<a href="http://dbarf.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/quatre-vingt-quinze-pour-cent.html" style="outline: none; transition: color 0.3s;"><span style="color: #009eb8; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Quatre-vingt quinze pour cent</span></a>” (on the
Fernande album). </span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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In “Cupidon s’en fout”, he is relating a very personal story, which
illustrates the same predicament.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">It tells how he had a flirtatious relationship with
an attractive young lady and believed that they were in the early stages of a
real romance. When she accepted an invitation from him to join him on a
day's outing in a forest favoured by lovers, he was sure that both of them
understood the pleasures that this promised. The song tells the
complicated sequel.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">CUPIDON S'EN FOUT<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pour changer en amour notre amourette,(1)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Des jours où il joue les mouches du coche(4),<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Où elles sont émoussées dans le bout,(5)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Il n'eut pas l'heur(7) de s'occuper de nous,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sur l'herbe tendre, on s'est roulés, mais vous<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Avez perdu la vertu(8), pas la tête(9),<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Si vous m'avez donné toute licence,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On effeuilla vingt fois la marguerite(12),<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Quand vous irez au bois conter fleurette (13),<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It would not have taken us all that much,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But on that day, Venus was distracted<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">There are days when Cupid gives not a damn.</span><br />
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amourette- Collins Robert translates this as “a passing fancy”/ passing love
affair.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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ne s’en serait pas fallu de beaucoup – s’en falloir de faire quelque is used in
expressions which say what is needed / what you are short of in order to
something. Collins Robert gives the example: « Il s’en faut de
beaucoup qu’il soit heureux » = He is far from being happy/ He is by no
means happy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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fout – “Il s’en fout” is an idiom meaning “he doesn’t care”. So the
English idiom “He doesn’t give a damn” would be “Il s’en fout
complètement. Foutre is a multipurpose verb, meaning “throw”- “put”- “do”
etc. used in colloquial French – sometimes having a crude usage.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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joue les mouches du coche – Literally this phrase means that Cupid acts like
flies swarming around a « coche » - which in olden times was a
horse-drawn coach offering public transport. The meaning of this
expression comes from the fable of La Fontaine “Le coche et la Mouche”.
In this fable, La Fontaine is showing that, in life, there are people who,
behaving as though they are in a great hurry, meddle in the business of others;
they act as though they are indispensable but are in the way everywhere they
go.. As a result, like flies, they need to be driven away. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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dans le bout- blunted at the tip.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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– has two meanings :1) courteous/ polite 2) courtly. The
second sense would seem more appropriate here. In the Encyclopaedia
Britannica there is this description of a courtly lover in Medieval terms: <i><span style="background: white; color: #444444;">The courtly lover existed to serve his
lady. His love was invariably adulterous, marriage at that time being usually
the result of business interest or the seal of a power alliance. Ultimately,
the lover saw himself as serving the all-powerful god of love
and worshipping his lady-saint. - </span></i><span style="background: white; color: #444444;">In a modern context, we would tone this
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n'eut pas l'heur – « l’heur » is short for le bonheur = good
luck/happy chance<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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- Among the meanings of this word , as in the English word: “virtue”, is the
sense of feminine chastity and sometimes it can mean “virginity”. As they
rolled in the grass, the couple did things that were not completely chaste, but
this would not seem to be the first crossing of the bridge by either of them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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par son absence _ was notable by its absence.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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vingt fois la marguerite - the international game for lovers is
for the man to pull off the petals of a daisy in turn, to see if the last petal
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"fleuretter" avait le sens de "dire des balivernes" –talk
nonsense. Le mot "fleurette" signifiait alors "bagatelle",
d’où le fait qu’il représente un sentiment léger ou une relation sexuelle
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(15) I changed "heaven be with you" to "heaven help you",
as this second phrase in normal English usage has lost practically all its
religious sense to mean "only something extraordinary can save you!".
It seems more suitable for Brassens, who is not known for spontaneous
piety.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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the 23<sup>rd</sup> June 2016, the following comment, signed by the name of
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a first-hand report from a close friend of Brassens, that he was for a long,
long time in love with a woman, with so much desire and tension and
difficulties that when they eventually got to bed together, he was impotent.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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have no way, of course, of confirming that this was a real event in Brassens’
life, but if this traumatic experience is read as the background to “Cupidon s’en
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David Yendleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09171810352548143316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-255163588513925599.post-40570618181953509432016-08-01T23:30:00.001-07:002017-09-30T15:25:40.926-07:00La Prière -A devout prayer of thanks for the bad and the good life brings <br />
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Poet. In this case, his choice of poet is surprising. Although Brassens
held strongly anti- clerical views, he has chosen the religious poetry of
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">La Prière</span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Par le petit garçon qui
meurt près de sa mère</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Tandis que des enfants
s'amusent au parterre</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Et par l'oiseau blessé qui
ne sait pas comment</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Son aile tout à coup
s'ensanglante et descend</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Par la soif et la faim et
le délire ardent</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Je vous salue, Marie.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Par les gosses battus, par
l'ivrogne qui rentre</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Par l'âne qui reçoit des
coups de pied au ventre</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Et par l'humiliation de
l'innocent châtié</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Par la vierge vendue qu'on
a déshabillée</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Par le fils dont la mère a
été insultée</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Je vous salue, Marie.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Par la vieille qui,
trébuchant sous trop de poids</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">S'écrie: " Mon Dieu!" </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Par le malheureux </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">dont les bras </span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ne purent s'appuyer sur une amour humaine</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Comme la Croix du Fils sur
Simon de Cyrène</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Par le cheval tombé sous
le chariot qu'il traîne</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Je vous salue, Marie.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Par les quatre horizons
qui crucifient le monde</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Par tous ceux dont la
chair se déchire ou succombe</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Par ceux qui sont sans
pieds, par ceux qui sont sans mains</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Par le malade que l'on
opère et qui geint</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Et par le juste mis au
rang des assassins</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Je vous salue, Marie.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Par la mère apprenant que
son fils est guéri</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Par l'oiseau rappelant
l'oiseau tombé du nid</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Par l'herbe qui a soif et
recueille l'ondée</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Par le baiser perdu par
l'amour redonné</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Et par le mendiant
retrouvant sa monnaie</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Je vous salue, Marie.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">From the album « Chanson
pour l’auvergnat » (1955)</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Prayer </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For the small boy who’s dying pressed to his mother</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">While children are having fun in the yard outside </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And for the wounded bird that does not know how</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Its wing's all at once full of blood and drops down</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For the hunger, thirst and the raging delirium</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For these I Hail Mary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For kids battered by a drunk back from his night out</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For the ass which takes constant kicks to the belly</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For the mortification of abused innocence </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For the virgin sold off whom they have stripped naked</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For the son whose mother has been grossly reviled</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For these I Hail Mary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For the old woman who staggers overloaded</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And screams unto God! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For the wretched man,whose arms</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Could not turn for support on any human love</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As the cross of the Son on Simon of Cyrene.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For the horse fallen under the cart that it drags</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For these I Hail Mary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For the four horizons that crucify the world</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For all those whose flesh is torn or perishes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For all those without feet, for all those without hands</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For the sick under surgery who groan with pain</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And for the just man wrongly linked with murderers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For these I Hail Mary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For the mother learning that her son is cured</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For the bird calling back the bird slipped from the nest</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For the grass which is parched and gets swamped with the rain</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For the kiss that was lost, returned by love</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And for the beggar recovering his misplaced pennies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For these I Hail Mary.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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The following shows that Brassens' song is a faithful copy of the text of Francis Jammes, but that he made some adaptation of the order.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">THIS IS THE TEXT OF GEORGES
BRASSENS’ SONG</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">La prière</span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">01Par le petit garçon qui
meurt près de sa mère</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">02Tandis que des enfants
s'amusent au parterre </span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">03Et par l'oiseau blessé
qui ne sait pas comment</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">04Son aile tout à coup
s'ensanglante et descend</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">05Par la soif et la faim
et le délire ardent:</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">06Je vous salue, Marie</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">07Par les gosses battus
par l'ivrogne qui rentre,</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">08Par l'âne qui reçoit des
coups de pied au ventre</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">09Et par l'humiliation de
l'innocent châtié,</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">10Par la vierge vendue
qu'on a déshabillée,</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">11Par le fils dont la mère
a été insultée:</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">12Je vous salue, Marie.</span></span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Brassens chose to omit this couplet "Crowning with thorns" from his song.</i></b></span></span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></span>
<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Within it Jammes talks of his personal torments as a poet, relating them to Christ's crown of thorns</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">13Par la vieille qui,
trébuchant sous trop de poids,</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">14S'écrie : "mon Dieu
! ", par le malheureux dont les bras</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">15Ne purent s'appuyer sur
une amour humaine</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">16Comme la Croix du Fils
sur Simon de Cyrène</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">17Par le cheval tombé sous
le chariot qu'il traîne:</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">18Je vous salue, Marie</span></span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">19Par les quatre horizons
qui crucifient le monde,</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">20Par tous ceux dont la
chair se déchire ou succombe,</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">21Par ceux qui sont sans
pieds, par ceux qui sont sans mains,</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">22Par le malade que l'on
opère et qui geint</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">23Et par le juste mis au
rang des assassins:</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">24Je vous salue, Marie</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">THIS IS THE TEXT OF THE POEM
OF FRANCIS JAMMES</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Les cinq Mystères douloureux</span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Par le petit garçon qui
meurt près de sa mère </span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">tandis que des enfants
s'amusent au parterre; </span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">et par l'oiseau blessé qui
ne sait pas comment </span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">son aile tout à coup
s'ensanglante et descend; </span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">par la soif et la faim et
le délire ardent:</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Je vous salue, Marie.</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Flagellation</span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Par les gosses battus par l'ivrogne
qui rentre, </span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">par l'âne qui reçoit des
coups de pied au ventre,</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">par l'humiliation de
l'innocent châtié, </span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">par la vierge vendue qu'on
a déshabillée, </span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">par le fils dont la mère a
été insultée:</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Je vous salue, Marie</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Couronnement d'épines</span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Par le mendiant qui n’eut
jamais d’autre couronne</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Que le vol des frelons,
amis des vergers jaunes,</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Et d’autre sceptre qu’un
bâton contre les chiens ;</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Par le poète dont saigne
le front qui est ceint</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Des ronces des désirs que
jamais il n’atteint :</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Je vous salue, Marie.</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Portement de Croix.</span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Par la vieille qui,
trébuchant sous trop de poids,</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">S'écrie : "Mon Dieu
!" Par le malheureux dont les bras</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ne purent s'appuyer sur
une amour humaine</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Comme la Croix du Fils sur
Simon de Cyrène ;</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Par le cheval tombé sous
le chariot qu'il traîne</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Je vous salue, Marie.</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Crucifiement.</span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Par les quatre horizons
qui crucifient le Monde,<br />
Par tous ceux dont la chair se déchire ou succombe,<br />
Par ceux qui sont sans pieds, par ceux qui sont sans mains,<br />
Par le malade que l'on opère et qui geint<br />
Et par le juste mis au rang des assassins :<br />
Je vous salue, Marie.</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The final verse of Brassens’
song is not in fact the final verse of Jammes section: “Les cinq Mystères
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Brassens has taken
this last optimistic verse from another section of
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">25Par la mère apprenant
que son fils est guéri,</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">26Par l'oiseau rappelant
l'oiseau tombé du nid,</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">27Par l'herbe qui a soif
et recueille l'ondée,</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">28Par le baiser perdu par
l'amour redonné,</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">29Et par le mendiant
retrouvant sa monnaie :</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">30Je vous salue, Marie</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Georges Brassens - </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1955 - </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Album -Chanson pour l'auvergnat"</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Invention de Notre Seigneur au Temple</span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Par la mère apprenant que
son fils est guéri,<br />
par l'oiseau rappelant l'oiseau tombé du nid,<br />
par l'herbe qui a soif et recueille l'ondée,<br />
par le baiser perdu par l'amour redonné,<br />
et par le mendiant retrouvant sa monnaie :<br />Je vous salue, Marie.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Francis Jammes - 1906 -</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Francis Jammes (1868 -1938)</b> came from the Pyrenees region of France and thus had Southern French roots, similar to Brassens. Poetry writing had been his passion while he was still working in a solicitor's office. His plain, lucid verse with country themes gained national recognition during the last decade of the 19th Century and by 1895 he was moving in Parisian literary circles that included Gide, Mallarmé and Henri de Régnier. Successive collections of his poems, published between 1897 and 1901 were well received. </span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The famous Catholic poet, Paul Claudel, became his close friend and under his influence, in 1905, Jammes became a practising Catholic once again, growing very devout.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">CONTRASTING REACTIONS TO BRASSENS' SONG: "LA PRIERE"</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Many people see in this song a sincere statement of the liturgy of the Christian and more particularly of the Catholic faith. Some suggest that this is a moment when Brassens, the firm agnostic, experiences and appreciates briefly the Catholic faith in which his mother had brought him up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The sincerity is certainly there and of necessity, because these are, as we see above, the exact words of Francis Jammes that he wrote when he was newly re-converted to Catholicism.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Inevitably as Brassens faithfully reproduced Jammes's poem there is religious content in Brassens' son</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">g. L</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ine 16 talks about "the cross of the Son". A Christian understands that in bible usage "Son" means </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"The Son of Man" or "The Son of God".</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> T</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">he mention of Simon of Cyrene in the same line, reminds Christians </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">of the man who carried the cross of Jesus, when he had become too weak to carry it to his place of execution.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The last line of each verse is: "Je vous salue Marie". The English prayer is to end "Hail Mary!" (I am uncertain how to translate this as I like my English lines to have the same number of syllables). Catholic commentators are impressed that this ending makes Brassens's song an authentic rosary prayer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">However Non-Christian, Non-Catholic readers will probably find the</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> actual religious and scriptural content in Brassens' song very light and not explicit. An indication that this may have been Brassens' conscious intention is that he omitted the third verse of Jammes's poem, where Jammes gave details of Christ's crucifixion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The question remains, however, why Brassens was attracted to the works of a Catholic poet. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In fact, it is perhaps misleading to give Jammes this epithet is misleading. He had built up his reputation as a poet of the people and ths "religious" poem is still predominantly about the wrongs suffered by the ordinary people about which Brassens was equally indignant</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Other commentators have said that by using this last line invocation and by including the last verse, Brassens has introduced his personal satirical viewpoint.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some critics maintain that Brassens is not merely being neutral to religion in this song, but that he is subtly putting over his own religious viewpoint. In their view, by transposing the final verse from a different section, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Brassens is pointing out that life does not consist only of the tragedy and disillusionment described in the first four stanzas. The fifth stanza tells us that there is also happiness and good luck. In this world of alternative possible outcomes the question is then posed why the deity who, people of religious faith believe, direct our lives, allow the cruel, destructive outcomes to be inflicted on humankind. One conclusion must be that the deity is ineffective or even indifferent in the face of the evident wrongs and the cruelties suffered by the creatures of the e</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">arth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With this realisation,the final invocation of each verse: "Je vous salue Marie" would become purely ironical.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A poem means very different things to different people. Those who describe in their comments under the You Tube recording the deep religious emotion that the song makes them feel are equally authentic.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A TECHNICAL REASON WHY BRASSENS CHOSE THIS POEM</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In song writing , there is a tradition of devising basic melodies that can be be used in multiple songs. In 19 th Century France, these all purpose melodies on which people stuck their own words were called "Timbres". In the previous year, Brassens had put to song the poem of Aragon <a href="http://brassenswithenglish.blogspot.co.uk/2008/04/il-ny-pas-damour-heureux-brassens-sings.htm">"Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux"</a>. This poem had the 12 syllable line of the Alexandrine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In putting the alexandrines of Jammes to music, Brassens decided to experiment with the "timbre" method and put "Les cinq Mysteres douleureux" onto his previous melody. Brassens tells how he got the reaction:"Who is this lazy chap who puts two different songs on the same tune?"</span></div>
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<i style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Like many of peasant stock, Jammes had a great love of and respect for his donkeys, which he expressed tenderly in the following poem: </span> "</i><span style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0px;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><b>Prière pour aller au Paradis avec les ânes" </b><i>(Prayer to go to paradise with the </i></span></span><span style="text-align: center; text-indent: 0px;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><i> donkeys)</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lorsqu'il faudra aller vers vous, ô mon Dieu, faites</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">que ce soit par un jour où la campagne en fête poudroiera. Je désire,
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Je prendrai mon bâton et sur la grande route j'irai, et je dirai aux
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Je suis Francis Jammes et je vais au Paradis, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">car il n'y a pas d'enfer au pays du Bon Dieu. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Je leur dirai: Venez, doux amis du ciel bleu,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">pauvres bêtes chéries qui, d'un brusque mouvement d'oreille,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Que je vous apparaisse au milieu de ces bêtes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">que j'aime tant parce qu'elles baissent la tête </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">doucement, et s'arrêtent en joignant leurs petits pieds</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">d'une façon bien douce et qui vous fait pitié. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">J'arriverai suivi de leurs milliers d'oreilles,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">suivi de ceux qui portèrent au flanc des corbeilles,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">de ceux traînant des voitures de saltimbanques</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ou des voitures de plumeaux et de fer-blanc, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">de ceux qui ont au dos des bidons bossués,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">des ânesses pleines comme des outres, aux pas cassés,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">de ceux à qui l'on met de petits pantalons </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">à cause des plaies bleues et suintantes que font</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">les mouches entêtées qui s'y
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mon Dieu, faites qu'avec ces ânes je vous vienne.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Faites que dans la paix, des anges nous conduisent</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">vers des ruisseaux touffus où tremblent des cerises </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">lisses comme la chair qui rit des jeunes filles, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">et faites que, penché dans ce séjour des âmes, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">sur vos divines eaux, je sois pareil aux ânes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">qui mireront leur humble et
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">à la limpidité de l'amour
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When I have to go to meet you, O my God, grant </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That it is on a holiday when the landscape</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Will shimmer. I want, just as I did here below, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To Paradise, where stars shine in full light of day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I will go and I will tell my friends the donkeys: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For there is no hell in the land of the good Lord. I'll say to them:
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Poor much love beasts who with quick flick of the ear</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Brush off the flies, the bees and the blows aimed for them...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">May I appear before you amidst these creatures Whom I love so much
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Gently and come to a stop by joining their small feet </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In manner most sweet, and which moves you to pity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'll arrive followed by their thousands of ears, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Followed by those
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">by those pulling the wagons of travelling fair folk </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">or carts of feather dusters and things made of tin, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">by those who have on their backs churns full of dinges, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">By she-asses pregnant as if bursting, dawdling,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">By those on whom they have put little pantaloons </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Because of the open blue wounds which are made by </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">God, grant that I may come to you with these donkeys. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Grant that thy angels may peaceably conduct us </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To streams lined with bushes upon which cherries sway ,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Just as smooth as the pleasurable flesh of girls, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And grant that I, in this rest place for souls, gazing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Over your divine waters, may be like the donkeys </span></div>
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<span lang="FR"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>A PERSONAL COMMENT - PET ANIMALS AND PERFECT LOVE.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My friends are for the most part not over-enthusiastic about ideas of an afterlife. Among them, however, there are quite a few who harbour a hope that, some time after death, they may come to a place where a faithful old cat or dog has been lying waiting for them all the intervening years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some commentators claim that it was Brassens who wrote the final couplet of "La Priere". They are wrong and the last verse of the following is the evidence:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Les Mystères joyeux -Francis Jammes</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Annonciation</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Par l'arc-en-ciel sur l'averse des roses blanches,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Par le jeune frisson qui court de branche en branche, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Et qui a fait fleurir la tige de Jessé ; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Par les Annonciations riant dans les rosées </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Et par les cils baissés des graves fiancées Je vous salue, Marie.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>L'exaltation</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Par l'exaltation de votre humilité</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Et par la joie du coeur des humbles visités, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Par le Magnificat qu'entonnent mille nids,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Par les lys de vos bras joints vers le saint-esprit </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Et par Elisabeth, treille où frémit un fruit </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Je vous salue, Marie.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Nativité</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Par l'âne et par le boeuf, par l'ombre et par la paille, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Par la pauvresse à qui l'on dit qu'elle s'en aille, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Par les nativités qui n'eurent sur leurs tombes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Que les bouquets de givre aux plumes de colombes ; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Par la vertu qui lutte et celle qui succombe </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Je vous salue, Marie.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Purification</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Par votre modestie offrant des tourterelles, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Par le vieux Siméon pleurant devant l'autel,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Par la prophétesse Anne et par votre mère Anne, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Par l'obscur charpentier qui, courbé sur sa canne, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Suivait avec douceur les petits pas de l'âne </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Je vous salue, Marie.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Invention de Notre Seigneur au Temple (Brassens' last verse)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Par la mère apprenant que son fils est guéri, </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Par l'oiseau rappelant l'oiseau tombé du nid. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Par l'herbe qui a soif, et recueille l'ondée ; </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Par le baiser perdu, par l'amour redonné. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Et par le mendiant retrouvant sa monnaie </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Je vous salue, Marie.</b></span><br />
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