tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40683320536550534232024-03-05T07:22:30.795+00:00 David-Y -Brassens2 Translation of the songs of Georges Brassens and Carla Bruni into English by David YDavid Yendleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09171810352548143316noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068332053655053423.post-21096036141236547492017-01-05T21:55:00.004+00:002020-08-04T12:03:11.104+01:00Indexes for my Brassens Selection<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 9pt 0cm 0cm; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://dbarf.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/alphabetical-list-of-my-brassens-songs.html" target="_blank">Index of my Brassens selection in ALPHABETICAL ORDER.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Because of the large number of songs that I have translated, I have had to
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">On the First Page of my selection there are 39 songs. The name that
I gave to my earliest Brassens posting list was:<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><i style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">(Click the link) </span></i>(1)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3675807832604868087#allposts" target="_blank">The songs of Georges Brassens with English translation</a><o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">On the second page of my Brassens selection, there are 47
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(<i>Click the link</i>) </span>2) <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4068332053655053423#allposts/src=sidebar" target="_blank">David Yendley(Second Brassens song list)</a></span><o:p></o:p>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">The Third Page of my Brassens selection I am still adding to</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">The name that I gave to this most recent Brassens page was:<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">(Click the link) </span></i>3) <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=255163588513925599#allposts/src=sidebar" target="_blank">More Brassenssongs with translation</a><o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">I hesitate to complicate things even further, but for those who would
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David Yendleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09171810352548143316noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068332053655053423.post-35591874456389581262016-03-15T01:22:00.000+00:002019-01-17T19:46:59.585+00:00Le Mecreant -The non-believer, Brassens, tests Pascal's religious conversion thesis<br />
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to tell what happened to him when he assiduously adopted the Christian
lifestyle that Blaise Pascal, in the 17th century, recommended to a friend, a
Sceptic, whom he hoped to save from eternal damnation. Brassens is typically
irreverent, but his well-informed interest in Pascal's ideas, suggests that he
felt admiration for the great man, who, though dead three hundred years before,
is still his neighbour upstairs (line 5).<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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among devoted Brassens fans, this song emerged as a top favourite.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mon voisin du dessus, un certain Blais' Pascal (2),</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Faites semblant de croire, et bientôt vous croirez.(3)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Tous les De Profundis(4), tous les morpionibus..(5).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Quelque sainte chanson dont vous avez</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Tant d'hommes dépourvus de leurs virils appas,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Is there in our time anything more odious</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">More despairing than not to believe in God?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'd like to have the faith -rock-hard of my coalman </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Who’s happy as a lark and stupid as they come</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My neighbour there on high, a certain Blaise Pascal</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Get down upon your knees, pray and entreat the Lord,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pretend that you believe and soon believe you will. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I started to pour forth, kneecaps upon the ground,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All the "Ave Marias" - all the "Our Fathers" ,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On the streets, in cafes, on the trains - upon buses,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All the De Profundis , all the morpionibus </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At that very juncture, finding thrown on a tip</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A cassock just my size, I dressed myself in it</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And then freshly tonsured, with my guitar in hand ,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I set off on my way to the faith that redeems. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I chanced on a gaggle of strong church devotees </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thinking me some other, in chorus they told me:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Father, sing to us then some choice sacred refrain,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some holy song in the way only you know how.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Strumming furiously the strings b‘neath my fingers ,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I intoned <a href="http://brassenswithenglish.blogspot.co.uk/2008/02/le-gorille_16.html%20" target="_blank">Le Gorille</a> and then <a href="http://brassenswithenglish.blogspot.com/2010/01/putain-de-toi.html%20" target="_blank">Putain de Toi</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Shouting “Get him the fraud, the traitor, hypocrite!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They want me to suffer Abelard's torturous fate</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am about to swell the ranks of harem eunochs.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">No more will fair maidens come cling to my bosom,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thanks to my high-pitched voice, I will get prime position</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Among the Little Singers of the Wooden Cross</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Drawn there by the noise, a charitable lady</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Says to them them: “What ‘re you up to? Stop it, you wretches!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There're so many men now, who are oddly inclined</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Obstinately to take Cupid, the wrong way round.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So many men deprived of their virile charms </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">From those who still have them, Let us not take them off! "</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">These forceful arguments made a great impression,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was allowed to leave with a great ovation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But on the path to heaven, I’ll take no further step</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Faith will come on its own or it won't come at all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I’ve never killed anyone, nor raped anyone either.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It’s a good long while since last I went a-thieving.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If a God should exist, he can see, all in all</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">LE MÉCRÉANT TRANSLATION NOTES</span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1) <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>la foi d'mon charbonnier – coalmen had
the traditional image of simple, primitive folk – originally they were charcoal
burners away for long periods in the forests. Thus there are sayings such as:
“Charbonnier est maître chez soi” – even the most humble is free to do as they
wish in their own home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2)
un certain Blais' Pascal - Blaise Pascal
(1623 -1662) was an outstanding French intellectual who made important
contributions to mathematics and physics.. Later he became a convinced
Christian and tried to use the logic of his scientific background to show why
anyone should seek to live a Christian life. In this poem, Brassens is
putting Pascal’s proposals to the test in his own life. I will look at
these arguments in more detail in supplementary notes on Pascal at the end of
this post.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">3) <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">Faites
semblant de croire, et bientôt vous croirez. – This line is a direct reference
to what is now known as “Pascal’s wager” – in French “Le pari de Pascal
“. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">He made the
claim that belief is logically justified because: Si Dieu n’existe pas, on ne
perdra rien à croire à lui, alors que s’il existe, on perdra tout en n’y
croyant pas.”</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">4) <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Tous les De Profundis – This is a very
appropriate text for Brassens to use as he begins to test the efficacy of
prayer. “De Profundis” are the first words of psalm 130, which in the King
James’s version reads: “Out of the depths, have I cried unto thee, O
Lord- Lord, hear my voice; let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my
supplications.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">5) <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>tous les morpionibus.. – In contrast
with (4) above, this is a totally inappropriate text for Brassens to use as a
prayer. In spite of the apparently Latin title, it is an excruciatingly
obscene song. I looked it up on the Web to find two lines to quote in
contrast with the psalm above but found it too revolting. “De Profundis
Morpionibus” appeared in 1864 and the words were written by the famous poet,
Théophile Gautier (1811 – 1872), who had been promised anonymity when it was
published. It was sung to a funeral march, written for an eminent
contemporary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">6) <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Sur ces entrefait's-là –« Sur
ces entrefaites-là » is a phrase that means « At that moment/
Meanwhile »</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">7) <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>trouvant dans les orties – Une ortie
is a stinging nettle and jeter quelque chose dans les orties means to throw
something unceremoniously away. As a cassock has been discarded
there is an implication that some cleric had, voluntarily or otherwise,
declined Pascal’s wager -see below.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">8) <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>un boisseau – this is an old measure
of dry materials and the English translation is a bushel- equal to about ten
litres.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">9) <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>d'punais's de sacristie – une punaise
is a bug/ drawing pin. Une sacristie is a sacristy/ vestry. However
une punaise de sacristie is an idiom which my dictionarry tells me means
some-one too attached to religion/ a bigot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with whom he imagines being confused with his new identity is probably the
singing cleric, le Père Duval for whom Brassens had the nickname of « La
calotte chantante ». <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">Brassens
describes Duval’s very human extra- curricular activities in “</span><a href="http://brassenswithenglish.blogspot.co.uk/2008/11/les-trompettes-de-la-renomme.htm"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Les Trompettes de
laRenommée</span></a><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">”. </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In
the 1950s several popular music hall acts emerged with a predominantly
religious appeal and , sometimes shared the stage with him. Later in the
poem, Brassens mentions “Les Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois”, a children’s
choir popular in the 1950s, 1960s and beyond. They brought an audience
different in taste from that of Brassens and it is possible that he felt some
irritation.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">11) <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>chanson dont vous avez l' secret
- When in English we congratulate some-one by saying « You really have the
secret of doing or making something », there is no idea of secrecy but of
doing things particularly well. It is the same with “Vous en avez le
secret” in French.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">12) <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>J'entonnai Le Gorille avec Putain De Toi
– These two songs would have had a moral content. The first is a protest
against the horror of capital punishment. The second expresses
indignation about sexual deceit and betrayal. However the frank
realism of the two songs would cause offense to the narrowly religious.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">13) <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>le supplic' d'Abélard -<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>The love affair of the 12th century
philosopher and theologian, Abélard and his student Héloise is one of history’s
most passionate and romantic true love stories. We are told that Héloise
(1101-1164) was quite beautiful and was outstanding for her learning. She
fell in love with her much older tutor, Pierre Abélard (1079- 1142) and they
became lovers. She bore him a child. Unfortunately, Héloise (1101-1164) was the
beloved niece of an important cleric, Canon Fulbert. He and the rest of
her family strongly disapproved of the affair. It is suspected that Canon
Fulbert paid some men to attack and castrate Abélard. After this mutilation,
Abélard became a monk. The correspondence of the lovers has survived for
posterity. Brassens is no doubt suggesting that the righteous anger of
religious zealots has always been capable of such extreme brutality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">4) <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>muets du sérail - Brassens says
flippantly that if the indignant crowd had castrated him, he would have been
eligible to join the guard of eunuchs, who according to the history of the
Ottoman Empire, were the only men permitted to come near the women in the harem
of the Sultan. Some of these eunuchs had also had their tongues removed
so that they could not tell of the acts of strangulation on potential
contenders for the Sultanate they had been required to perform.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">15) <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>un' dam' de charité – This lady
bravely speaks up for a man being brutally attacked by group of men. She
would seem to have charity in the sense of love for fellow creatures in
need. Some commentators refer to a Catholic organisation “Les Dames de
Charité”, but Brassens does not use capitals. I would have liked to
convey the idea of a very proper lady to retain the humour of the incongruity
of the grounds for her arguments against the castration - the wilful reduction
of the provision of female sexual satisfaction!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">16) <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>un penchant pervers à prendre
obstinément Cupidon à l'envers - These words are in inverted commas
and are therefore those of the charitable lady. Many commentators
conclude that the lady and possibly Brassens was homophobic. In
mitigation, they point out that in 1960, when this song appeared, it was not
yet politically incorrect to express hostility to same-sex love. However,
we should perhaps not be too ready to see these words as homophobic on
Brassens’ part. Living in the world of theatre, Brassens was constantly
in the society of homosexuals and we have little evidence elsewhere that he
felt such hostility. More positive commentators say that we should not
see any judgemental element in these words but recognise that Brassens is
fulfilling his usual role as an observer of contemporary society.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">17) <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Ces arguments massues -
Une massue is a club, i.e. the weapon of ancient man. Un argument
massue = an overwhelmingly persuasive argument .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">18) <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Y'a déjà quelque temps que je ne vole
plus – In 1939, when he was seventeen, Brassens got into bad company in his
hometown of Sète. He was convicted of theft and this caused great
disgrace and upheaval in his life. See the full story at “Thestory of Georges
Brassens and his Jeanne”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">THE
RELIGIOUS IDEAS OF PASCAL TO WHICH BRASSENS REFERS</span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The
ideas of Pascal that Brassens is referring to in this song are found in one of
the longer fragments of his “Pensées” that is often known as Pascal’s wager:
“Le Pari de Pascal”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pascal
maintains that it is not possible to prove the existence of God by rational
means. However, influenced by his years of research into probability
theory in the sciences, he thought it useful to examine outcomes to be expected
for persons who accepted to live the Christian life and for persons who
declined. He presented these alternatives as a wager that we are invited
to make. All the same. Pascal believed that there was only one logical
choice. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>His argument for making this religious wager runs as follows:</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Accepting
that no satisfactory evidence is available, the expected value of a belief in
God is vastly greater than non-belief. This is because, if one believes
and commits oneself to a true Christian life and it turns out that God
really does exist, then the outcome for you is enormous good with the prospect
of eternal life. Yet if it turns out that God does not exist, you have
lost little if anything. Thus it is a matter of pure logic to adopt a
belief in God and to live the way of life that goes with it. Pascal
therefore invites his libertine friends to place their bets on the existence of
God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">His
argument that religious conviction is achieved after adopting a Christian
way of life.</span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">In
his poem, Brassens says “</span><b><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Act
as if you believe and soon you’re a believer</span></i></b><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">”</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> - and Pascal said just
that! The following explanation consists largely of sentences from Pascal's</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif";">
"</span><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;">Pensées</span></b><span style="background: white; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pascal
recommended habit as a more effective path to salvation than the exercise of
human thought. Whereas intellectual proof
convinces only the mind, habitually leading a Christian life
allows us to achieve the strongest and rawest conviction. The explanation
is that man is not only a mind but he is also an automaton and the discipline
that comes through the machine removes the need for the confirmation given by
reason. Pascal asks what will happen to you once you have taken the
decision to take the steps along this pathway and he gives his own reply that
you will be faithful, decent, humble, grateful, beneficent, sincere and true.
Thanks to the experience of the new life and the religious observance that you
have adopted, you will rise up from the level of intelligence to a new order
which is that of the heart. This move will involve your growing closer to
God. Finally, through the transcendence of the heart and of love, the the
ultimate conviction of the existence of God is achieved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The highly intellectual Pascal was a very sincere Christian, whose belief, as
he showed above, came from personal intuition rather than from reasoning.
It was a faith that he absolutely needed to cope with the trials of his life.
Pascal was permanently disabled from the age of eighteen and never passed
a day without pain. He was able to maintain the quality of his life
with the help of the warm love of family and friends. Had he lived a few
years longer, his faith would have been cruelly tested by the destructive
autocracy of Church and State. I describe this in my biography of Pascal,
the link to which I will be posting later.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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This is a song of Brassens, the social reformer and with its
violent element also of Brassens, the anarchist. His attitude was shaped by the straitened
circumstances of the, nevertheless, happy family home of his childhood, when
money had been in short supply. Brassens’
song about the marriage of his parents "<a href="http://dbarf.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/la-marche-nuptiale-wedding-march.html" target="_blank">La Marche Nuptiale</a>"tells the same story of a humble family fighting for its dignity.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; text-transform: uppercase;">GRAND-PÈRE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Grand-père
suivait en chantant<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">La route qui
mène à cent ans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">La mort lui fit,
au coin d'un bois,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">L' coup du pèr'
François.(1)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">L'avait donné de
son vivant<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Tant de bonheur
à ses enfants<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Qu'on fit, pour
lui en savoir gré,(2)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Tout pour
l'enterrer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Et l'on courut à
toutes jam-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">-bes quérir une
bière, mais...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Comme on était
léger d'argent(3),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Le marchand nous
reçut à bras fermés.(4)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">"Chez
l'épicier, pas d'argent, pas d'épices,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Chez la belle
Suzon, pas d'argent, pas de cuisse...(5)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Les morts de basse
condition<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">C'est pas de ma
juridiction."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Or, j'avais
hérité d' grand-père<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Un' pair' de
bott's pointues<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">S'il y a des
coups d' pied què'que part qui s' perdent,(6)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">C'lui-là toucha(7)
son but<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">C'est depuis ce
temps-là que le bon apôtre(8)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">C'est depuis ce
temps-là que le bon apôtre<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Ah ! c'est pas
joli...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Ah ! c'est pas
poli...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">A un' fess' qui
dit merde à l'autre(9)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Bon papa(10),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Ne t'en fais
pas:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Nous en
viendrons<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">À bout de (11) tous
ces empêcheurs d'enterrer en rond(12)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Le mieux à faire
et le plus court,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Pour qu'
l'enterrement suivît son cours,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Fut de borner
nos prétentions<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">À un' bièr'
d'occasion.(13)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Contre un pot de
miel (14) on acquit<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Les quatre
planches d'un mort qui<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Rêvait d'offrir
quelques douceurs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">À une âme soeur.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Et l'on courut à
toutes jam-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">-bes quérir un
corbillard, mais...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Comme on était
léger d'argent,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Le marchand nous
reçut à bras fermés.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">"Chez
l'épicier, pas d'argent, pas d'épices,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Chez la belle
Suzon, pas d'argent, pas de cuisse...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Les morts de
basse condition,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">C'est pas de ma
juridiction."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Ma bott' partit,
mais je m' refuse<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">De dir' vers
quel endroit,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Ça rendrait les
dames confuses<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Et je n'en ai
pas le droit<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">C'est depuis ce
temps-là que le bon apôtre<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">C'est depuis ce
temps-là que le bon apôtre<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Ah ! c'est pas
joli...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Ah ! c'est pas
poli...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">A un' fess' qui
dit merde à l'autre<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Bon papa,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Ne t'en fais pas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Nous en
viendrons<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">À bout de tous
ces empêcheurs d'enterrer en rond<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Le mieux à faire
et le plus court,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Pour qu'
l'enterrement suivît son cours,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Fut de porter
sur notre dos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">L' funèbre
fardeau.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">S'il eût pu
revivre un instant,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Grand-père
aurait été content<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">D'aller à sa
dernièr' demeur'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Comme un
empereur.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Et l'on courut à
toutes jam-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">-bes quérir un
goupillon(15), mais...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Comme on était
léger d'argent,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Le marchand nous reçut à bras fermés.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">"Chez
l'épicier, pas d'argent, pas d'épices,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Chez la belle
Suzon, pas d'argent, pas de cuisse...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Les morts de
basse condition,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">C'est pas de ma
bénédiction."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Avant même que
le vicaire(16)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Ait pu lâcher un
cri,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">J' lui bottai l'
cul au nom du Pèr',<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Du Fils et du
Saint-Esprit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">C'est depuis ce
temps-là que le bon apôtre<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">C'est depuis ce
temps-là que le bon apôtre<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Ah ! c'est pas
joli...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Ah ! c'est pas
poli...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">A un' fess' qui
dit merde à l'autre.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Bon papa,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Ne t'en fais
pas:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Nous en
viendrons<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">À bout de tous
ces empêcheurs d'enterrer en rond<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">À bout de tous
ces empêcheurs d'enterrer en rond<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
<i><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Georges
Brassens<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="color: #db9582; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">(1957 - Je me suis fait tout
petit, 7) <span style="color: #db9582;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
<span lang="FR" style="color: #db9582; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
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<td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 231.05pt;" valign="top" width="385"><div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Grandpa walked the road,
singing, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">That leads to his hundred
years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Death sneaked on him down
in the woods<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And snuffed him out short.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">He had given in his life
time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Such happiness to his
children<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">That, gratefully, they did their
all <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">For his funeral.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And they ran fast as legs
would<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Take them to get a coffin,
but<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">As they’d little ready
money<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The man who dealt in them turned
them right down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">"At the grocers, no
money, no groceries<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">At fair Susie’s house, no
money, no fun …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Deaths low on the social
scale<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Aren’t under my
jurisdiction.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Now, I’d inherited from
Grandad <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">A pair of pointy boots<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">If there are kicks up the
bum somewhere done on the quiet <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">This pair was just the job.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The coffin maker has had
ever since<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">This same fine fellow has
had ever since<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Ah, it is not nice<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Ah, it’s not polite <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">A very twisted bum which
makes him wince.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Kind grandpa<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Don't get upset<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We will manage to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Sort out those who stand in
the way<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Of burials due<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The best thing to do and
quickest<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">So the funeral might be
carried out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Was to limit our requirements<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">To a second hand coffin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We acquired for a jar of
honey <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Four planks from a dead man
who <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Dreamt of giving some sweet
things<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">To a great soul-mate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And we ran fast as legs
would <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Take us to get a hearse,
but <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">As we’d little ready money<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The man who dealt in them
turned us right down<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">"At the grocers, no
money, no groceries<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">At fair Susie’s house, no
money, no fun …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Deaths low on the social
scale<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Are not in my
jurisdiction.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">My boot lashed out, but I refuse <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">To tell the spot aimed at <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">T’would embarrass the ladies <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">And I don’t have the right to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And the fine fellow has had
ever since<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And the fine fellow has had
ever since<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Ah, it is not nice<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Ah, it’s not polite <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">A very twisted bum which
makes him wince.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Kind grandpa<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Don't get upset<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We will manage to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Sort out those who stand in
the way of burials due<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The very best way and the
quickest<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">So the funeral might follow
its course<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Was to carry on our backs <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">The funeral burden. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">If he could’ve come back to life a bit<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Grandfather would have been content <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">To go to his final place of rest<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Just like an emperor <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And we ran at full speed to
get <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">A holy water sprinkler, but <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">As we’d little ready money<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The man who dealt in them
turned us right down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">"At the grocers, no
money, no groceries<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">At fair Susie’s house, no
money, no fun …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Deaths low on the social
scale<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Are not in my benediction.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Even before the curate <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Could give forth a cry <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">I kicked his arse in name of the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Father, Son and Holy Ghost.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And the fine fellow has had
ever since<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And the fine fellow has had
ever since<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Ah, it is not nice<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Ah, it’s not polite <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">A very twisted bum which
makes him wince.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Kind grandpa<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Don't get upset<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">We will manage to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Sort out those who stand in
the way<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Of burials due<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Sort out those who stand in
the way<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Of burials due<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Translation notes<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><b>1)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span></b><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Faire le coup du père francais – He compares the
sudden, severe stroke that killed his grandfather, with symptoms, no doubt, of
fighting for breath, to a mortal attack by notorious French street robbers.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The
dictionary, Reverso tells their story : </span><i><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">Originally, in the course of the second half of the 19th century, the
real « coup du père François » could only be carried out if there
were two scoundrels, whose aim was to relieve of his money the average citizen,
who had the audacity and imprudence to walk out at night in ill-lit streets.</span><span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">The crime was carried out in the following
manner: the first of the attackers would get into conversation with the
stroller, with some everyday remark such as asking for a light or asking the
time. The accomplice, armed with a belt
to form a slip knot, came up from behind to strangle the victim, while he
retained the back of the victim against his own back. The latter, with his feet
of the ground was like a sack of potatoes, struggling to breathe and to free
himself from the noose, All the while the man at the front was free to
rummage through and empty his pockets. When
the theft was completed, the victim was generally in a very bad state, although
not necessarily dead. The partners in crime
would then recuperate the belt they had used and make off. </span></span><o:p></o:p></i><br />
<b><span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="background: white;"><br /></span></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">2)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></b><!--[endif]--><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Pour lui en savoir gré -
savoir gré à quelqu’un de quelque chose means to show some-one gratitude for
something. <b><o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">3)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></b><!--[endif]--><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Léger d’argent – my
French dictionary quotes “</span><span lang="FR" style="background: white; color: #404040; font-size: 12.0pt;">Abîmé de dettes et<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">léger
d'argent ». </span></strong></span><strong><span style="background: white; color: #404040; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Léger can mean in short supply</span></strong><b><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<strong><span style="background: white; color: #404040; font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></strong></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">4)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal;">
</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Reçut à bras fermés – Brassens is using the opposite of the common
expression: “recevoir à bras ouverts” to welcome with open arms</span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">5)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal;">
</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Chez la belle
Suzon, pas d'argent, pas de cuisse. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">« Cuisse » means
« thigh » because what the lovely Susie had to sell was her body.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12pt;">6)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Des coups de pied quelque part qui se perdent- se perdre has an
idiomatic use. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The dictionary says that an act
« qui se perd », is an act which is committed with impunity. I n modern English we talk of things “passing
under the radar”. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">7)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal;">
</span></span></b><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Toucha son but - We are reminded
that “toucher” also has the sense of “to hit one’s target” –hence the cry in
fencing: “touché!”</span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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bon apôtre – Apôtre means apostle
However the word is sometimes used ironically for some-one who does not
live up to the standards pretended. My
translation - “fine fellow”- is meant to
be ironical</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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merde à l'autre. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Brassens gives this line a build up
as « not nice" and "impolite ». This phrase is making a play on the awful
expression: “Il a un oeil qui dit merde
à l’autre”, which means “He is cross-eyed”. In Brassens’ version “merde” may seem to have
reference to the physical locality. But in the original’ it would seem to have
its normal colloquial usage to express surprise or pain. The translation should therefore describe a
permanently deformed bottom, associated with pain and should shock the reader
or listener. Not easy! To restore the emphasis that I have lost , I
have added a rhyme.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Papa – In those days “Bon Papa” was a way of saying « Grandad »</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Nous en viendrons à bout de – « Venir à bout de
quelque chose » means to manage to overcome something<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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en rond. The expression « les
empêcheurs de tourner/danser en rond » means the spoil-sports –. </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The
expression is applied to people who gratuitously stop you doing what you are fully entitled
to do.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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planks from previously used coffins were on sale in cemeteries in France by the
common graves. I am puzzled how the dead
people came to vacate their coffins! I haven't the heart to research such a grim subject but I guess that some corpses buried in a common grave were emptied from the coffin first so that it or its timber could be resold, <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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family bought the second-hand coffin from the family of a man who had recently died. The latter had stipulated that the price obtained for these boards would
have to be to enough to buy a jar of honey. This honey was to be be given to his great soul-mate. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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as a modern languages teacher, I used to irritate my classes, so they told me, by talking about
« faux amis ». The word
“confus” was one on my list. In fact “confus
has two meanings in French and one is the same meaning as in English – un
esprit confus is a confused mind.
However”confus” is a faux ami because the French also use it in a sense
not given to the word in English –it often means, as here, embarrassed/ashamed. He would have embarrassed the ladies by this final line, but he would not not have
confused them, if he had said frankly that he landed his pointed boot up the
arse of each of the “apostles”.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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sprinkler of holy water. In domestic
use, it is brush for cleaning jars</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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priest to the curé. The word “vicar”, as
used in the Anglican church is priest in charge of the Parish and thus would
translate as curé, if it needed to be translated into French. It is perhaps deliberate that Brassens makes it
a lesser priest, who behaves so badly in his story.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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singing. The story is set in a rustic France
whose way of life was characterised by joie de vivre and in British eyes with a
lot of harmless naughtiness. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span face="" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span face="" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Cat lovers
need consoling that it is only a made-up story.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Brave
Margot<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Margoton
la jeune bergère<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Trouvant
dans l'herbe un petit chat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Qui
venait de perdre sa mère<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">L'adopta<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Elle
entrouvre sa collerette(1)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Et le
couche contre son sein<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">C'était tout
c' qu'elle avait, pauvrette,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Comm'
coussin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Le chat
la prenant pour sa mère<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Se mit à
téter tout de go(2)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Émue,
Margot le laissa faire<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Brav'
Margot<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Un
croquant passant à la ronde(3)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Trouvant le
tableau(4) peu commun<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">S'en alla
le dire à tout l' monde<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Et le
lendemain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">(Chorus)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Quand
Margot dégrafait son corsage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Pour
donner la gougoutte(5) à son chat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Tous les
gars, tous les gars du village<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Étaient
là, la la la la la la<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Étaient
là, la la la la la<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Et Margot
qu'était simple et très sage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Présumait
qu' c'était pour voir son chat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Qu'tous
les gars, qu'tous les gars du village<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Étaient
là, la la la la la la<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Étaient
là, la la la la la<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">L' maître
d'école et ses potaches<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Le mair',
le bedeau, le bougnat(6)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Négligeaient
carrément leur tâche<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Pour voir
ça<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Le
facteur d'ordinair' si preste(7)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Pour voir
ça, ne distribuait plus<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Les
lettres que personne au reste<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">N'aurait
lues<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Pour voir
ça, Dieu le leur pardonne,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Les
enfants de chœur au milieu<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Du saint
sacrifice(8) abandonnent<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Le saint
lieu<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Les
gendarmes, mêm' les gendarmes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Qui sont
par natur' si ballots(9)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Se
laissaient toucher par les charmes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Du joli
tableau<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Chorus<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Quand
Margot dégrafait son corsage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Pour
donner la gougoutte(3) à son chat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Tous les
gars, tous les gars du village<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Étaient
là, la la la la la la<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Étaient
là, la la la la la<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Et Margot
qu'était simple et très sage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Présumait
qu' c'était pour voir son chat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Qu'tous
les gars, qu'tous les gars du village<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Étaient
là, la la la la la la<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Étaient
là, la la la la la<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Mais les
autr’s femm’s de la commune<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Privées
d’leurs époux, d’leurs galants,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Accumulèrent
la rancune<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Patiemment…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Puis un
jour, ivres de colère(10),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Elles
s’armèrent de bâtons<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Et,
farouches, elles immolèrent(11)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Le
chaton…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">La
bergère, après bien des larmes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Pour
s’consoler prit un mari<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Et ne
dévoila plus ses charmes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Que pour
lui…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Le temps
passa sur les mémoires,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">On oublia
l’événement,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Seuls des
vieux racontent encore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">À leurs
p’tits enfants…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<i><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">(Chorus)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Quand
Margot dégrafait son corsage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Pour
donner la gougoutte(3) à son chat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Tous les
gars, tous les gars du village<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Étaient
là, la la la la la la<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Étaient
là, la la la la la<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Et Margot
qu'était simple et très sage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Présumait
qu' c'était pour voir son chat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Qu'tous
les gars, qu'tous les gars du village<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Étaient
là, la la la la la la<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Étaient
là, la la la la la<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">(1954 –
(Les amoureux des bancs publics 2).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border: 1pt solid; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 219.7pt;" valign="top" width="366"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Kind-hearted
Margot<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Li’l Margot
the young shepherdess<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Finding in the
grass a small cat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Which had got
lost from his mother<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Adopted him<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">She half opens
her dress collar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And lays him
up against her breast <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It was all
that she’d got, poor girl,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">For a pillow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The cat,
thinking her his mother <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Started to
suckle straight away<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Thrilled,
Margot let him carry on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Kind Margot <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">An oafish man
walking around<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Finding the
tableau unusual<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Went to tell
everyone the tale<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And the day
after<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(Chorus) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When Margot
was undoing her blouse <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">To give her
cat its drop of milk <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">All of the
lads of the village,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Were out
there, la la la la la la <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Were out
there, la la la la la <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And Margot, a
simple, very good girl Presumed it was to see her cat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">That all the
lads of the village, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Were there, la
la la la la la<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Were there, la
la la la la<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The school
teacher and his pupils<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The mayor, the
beadle, the coalman<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Flagrantly
neglected their work <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">To see this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The postman,
normally so prompt<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">To see this,
stopped delivering<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The mail that,
besides, no-body <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Would have
read. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">To see this,
may God forgive them, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The altar boys
right at the height<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Of the Holy
Sacrifice sneak off<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">From God’s
house. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The gendarmes,
even the gendarmes,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Who are, by
nature, so cumbrous<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Let themselves
be touched by the charms <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">O’the pretty
tableau.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(Chorus)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When Margot
was undoing her blouse <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">To give her
cat its drop of milk <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">All of the
lads of the village,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Were out
there, la la la la la la <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Were out
there, la la la la la <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And Margot, a simple,
very good girl Presumed it was to see her cat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">That all the
lads of the village, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Were there, la
la la la la la<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Were there, la
la la la la<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">But the other
women of the district<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Deprived of
husbands or boyfriends, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Built up their
resentment<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Patiently …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Then one day,
vicious with anger,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">They armed
themselves with staves <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And
ferociously slayed <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The small cat
… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The
shepherdess, after much weeping,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">So to console
herself, got wed <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And ne’er
again revealed her charms <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">But for him … <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Time passed
over the memories; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The happenings
were forgotten; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Just some old
men still tell the tale <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">To their
grandchildren …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">(Chorus)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When Margot
was undoing her blouse <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">To give her
cat its drop of milk <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">All of the
lads of the village,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Were out
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And Margot, a
simple, very good girl Presumed it was to see her cat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">That all the
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there, la la la la la la<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this is a little round collar, often pleated, made of fine linen<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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mit à téter tout de go. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span face="" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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ronde= around - for example « à
des kilomètres à la ronde » translates as
« for miles around »<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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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 style="background: white; color: #a8397a; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">an<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">arrangement</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: #a8397a; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; color: #a8397a; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">people</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: #a8397a; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; color: #a8397a; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">who do not<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">move</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: #a8397a; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; color: #a8397a; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">or<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">speak</span><span style="background: white; color: #a8397a; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">especially</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="background: white; color: #a8397a; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">on a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">stage</span><span style="background: white; color: #a8397a; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">, who<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">represent</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: #a8397a; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; color: #a8397a; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">view</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: #a8397a; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; color: #a8397a; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">life</span><span style="background: white; color: #a8397a; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">, an<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">event</span><span style="background: white; color: #a8397a; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">, etc.”.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span face="" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">5)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Le bougnat – Larousse tells us that
this word refers to a coal merchant.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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« la goutte » - the drop (of water etc).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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“nimble”. It describes speed of movement
and as an interjection “preste!” means “hurry up!” I suppose that is why British magicians say
“Hey presto!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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at the climax of the mass.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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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”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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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.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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offer an animal or a human being as a sacrifice/to put to death/massacre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span face="" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><b>This Russian version of the song</b> by the talented Alexandre Avanessov has
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David Yendleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09171810352548143316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068332053655053423.post-2188386198217535532014-11-03T13:19:00.000+00:002018-03-14T00:58:36.773+00:00Le petit joueur de flûtiau - A royal musician puts his principles before personal aggrandizement - but whom does he represent?<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Brassens
tells his story of the reaction of an eminent flute player, whose talents and
compositions had earned him the place as head of the King’s music, when he was
offered a noble title in recognition. It
makes a charming little tale.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">However, it
has a deeper significance in the Brassens story. “Le
petit joueur de flûtiau“ is Brassens’ reply
to those of his friends who sought, in the early 1960s, to obtain for him the high honour of election to the small
elite cultural authority, the Académie Française<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this song on You tube is created by Mme <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp1-VNFTqhqv59Vp_1ahUAg"><span style="background: white; border: none 1.0pt; color: #333333; padding: 0cm;">Christine Mattei-Barraud</span></a>, who is to be congratulated for her
collage of beautiful pictures.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Le petit
joueur de flûtiau<br />
Le petit joueur de flûtiau<br />
Menait la musique au château (1)<br />
Pour la grâce de ses chansons<br />
Le roi lui offrit un blason<br />
Je ne veux pas être noble<br />
Répondit le croque-note<br />
Avec un blason à la clé (2)<br />
Mon la(3) se mettrait à gonfler<br />
On dirait par tout le pays<br />
Le joueur de flûte a trahi (4)<br />
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Et mon
pauvre petit clocher<br />
Me semblerait trop bas perché<br />
Je ne plierais plus les genoux<br />
Devant le bon Dieu de chez nous<br />
Il faudrait à ma grande âme<br />
Tous les saints de Notre-Dame<br />
Avec un évêque à la clé<br />
Mon la se mettrait à gonfler<br />
On dirait par tout le pays<br />
Le joueur de flûte a trahi.<br />
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(Et la
chambre où j'ai vu le jour<br />
Me serait un triste séjour<br />
Je quitterais mon lit mesquin<br />
Pour une couche à baldaquin<br />
Je changerais ma chaumière<br />
Pour une gentilhommière<br />
Avec un manoir à la clé<br />
Mon la se mettrait à gonfler<br />
On dirait par tout le pays<br />
Le joueur de flûte a trahi)
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Je serai
honteux de mon sang<br />
Des aïeux de qui je descends<br />
On me verrait bouder(5) dessus<br />
La branche dont je suis issu<br />
Je voudrais un magnifique<br />
Arbre généalogique<br />
Avec du sang bleu a la clé<br />
Mon la se mettrait à gonfler<br />
On dirait par tout le pays<br />
Le joueur de flûte a trahi <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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voudrais plus épouser<br />
Ma promise ma fiancée<br />
Je ne donnerais pas mon nom<br />
A une quelconque Ninon<br />
Il me faudrait pour compagne<br />
La fille d'un grand d'Espagne<br />
Avec un' princesse à la clé<br />
Mon la se mettrait à gonfler<br />
On dirait par tout le pays<br />
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Le petit
joueur de flûtiau<br />
Fit la révérence au château (1)<br />
Sans armoiries sans parchemin<br />
Sans gloire il se mit en chemin<br />
Vers son clocher(6) sa chaumine(7)<br />
Ses parents et sa promise<br />
Nul ne dise dans le pays<br />
Le joueur de flûte a trahi<br />
Et Dieu reconnaisse pour sien<br />
Le brave petit musicien<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The little flute player<br />
The little fellow on the flute <br />
Had charge of music at the court<br />
In gratitude for his songs<br />
The king offered him a coat o’ arms.<br />
I don't want to be a noble<br />
Answered the song-maker<br />
With aristocrat's crest to boot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">My style would get high and mighty<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And my poor little steeple<br />
To me would seem to stand too low <br />
No longer would I bend the knee<br />
Before the kindly God of home<br />
I would require for my grand soul<br />
All the saints of Notre-Dame<br />
With a bishop along to boot<br />My style would get high and mighty<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(And the small room where I was born<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Would be dismal for me to stay in<br />
I’d give up my shabby couch<br />
For a four post, canopied bed <br />
I would change my tiny cottage<br />
For a sumptuous manor house<br />
With a splendid estate to boot<br />My style would get high and mighty<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I will be ashamed of my blood,<br />
Of the folk I’m descended from,<br />
They’d see me turn by back upon<br />
The branch from which I orig’nate .<br />
I would want a magnificent<br />
Genealogical tree<br />
With some blue blood in it to boot<br />My style would get high and mighty<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">No longer would I wish to wed<br />
My betrothèd my fiancée, <br />
I would not be giving my name<br />
To a mere Ninon or such<br />
I would require as my partner<br />
A daughter of Spanish grandee<br />With a princess along to boot<br />My style would get high and mighty<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Gave a low bow to the courtiers<br />
Without noble crest, or parchment<br />
Without glory he went on his way<br />
To his belfry and his poor house<br />
To his parents and his betrothed<br />
Let no-one say throughout the land<br />
The flute player has betrayed us<br />
And may God acknowledge as his’ own <br />
The stout(6) little musician.</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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in English gives a picture of a
drawbridge and turreted walls etc.
“Château” has this meaning of
course, but it has also the sense of a palace such as Le Château de
Versailles. I would prefer to set the
tale in the context of a monarchy like Louis XIV’s, with an opulent king free
to distribute patronage at will.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><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;">2)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Avec un blason à la clé …… -
Brassens is making a play on words that would seem impossible to translate. “
La clef” is “the key” in music but “à la clef” is a figurative expression. </span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Robert gives two examples:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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clé” means “there is a reward at the end of it all”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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mettre en retenue avec un devoir à la clé » meaning ; « I am
going to put you in detention with a piece of homework for you into the
bargain”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The idea would seem to be therefore that of an extra factor
that comes at the end of a process- a
phrase in English would be: “to cap it all”/ “ brought into the bargain”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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“My la will start to inflate”.
Apparently, the “la” number tells the pitch in which a song will be sung
or played. For example Brassens, we are
told, usually played his guitar in la7.
As a non-musician, I can confine myself to the figurative meaning. “Donner le la” to the musician means “To give
an A” but the phrase has a figurative meaning of “To set the tone/ the fashion / the scale.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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« trahir » is « to betray ». In English and in French too, I think, it is
a transitive verb needing an object. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">5)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></i></b><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On me verrait bouder dessus –
« Bouder » means « To sulk.
The transitive verb « Bouder q’n
means ; « To refuse to talk to someone” – “To have nothing to
do with someone” – “To shun someone”.
“Ils se boudent” means: “They are not on speaking terms”. (<b><i>Thanks
again to Le Petit Robert .)<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></span></div>
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clocher sa chaumine – Brassens had demonstrated the same priorities in real
life. Having taken refuge in the house
of Jeanne and her husband in 1944, Brassens chose to stay on there for 22
years, even after he had achieved success and had the wealth to live in comfort
in an upper-class neighbourhood. Jeanne’s
cramped house number 9, Impasse Florimont had, at the start, no hot water, no
gas, no electricity, no mains drainage, but Brassens felt himself cocooned in
this congenial environment. After he
moved out in 1966, he continued to miss his earlier, simple lifestyle for the
rest of his life (see Auprès de mon arbre). <a href="http://brassenswithenglish.blogspot.co.uk/2008/02/aupres-de-mon-arbre.html">http://brassenswithenglish.blogspot.co.uk/2008/02/aupres-de-mon-arbre.html</a>
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image is usually of a thatched cottage.
It is a poetic word.<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></span><br />
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“Stout” in its older sense of proud, valiant and strong.<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></span></div>
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the Académie Française<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In the
1960s, a number of Brassens friends approached him to ask for his approval as
they promoted his candidature for a vacant seat in the elite assembly of the
Académie Française. This is the
illustrious body established by Cardinal Richelieu in 1635. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The primary role of
the Academie was and still remains the regulation the French language by
determining the grammar and vocabulary that they are prepared to accept as
correct. Louis XIII was on the throne
when it began its work and in the ever increasingly autocratic society of the
French seventeenth century, it took its place as an instrument of central
control in the cultural domain. </span><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Académie is limited to forty members, who are intended to
hold their seats for life - or perhaps much longer than that as they are
known as<span class="apple-converted-space"> “</span><i>les immortels”</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Academicians are mainly writers and
famous past members include<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="background: white; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Alexandre Dumas,
Victor Hugo<span style="color: #252525;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>
Montesquieu<span style="color: #252525;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Louis
Pasteur<span style="color: #252525;">;<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Voltaire<span style="color: #252525;">. Their formal uniform features
notably a long black coat and black-feathered<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>cocked
hat<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #252525;">, </span></span><span style="color: #252525;">richly embroidered with golden-green leafy motifs and the
men wear a sword (See cartoon below).</span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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knowledge of Brassens tells us that he would be an unlikely to see himself
occupying a “fauteuil de l’ </span><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Académie</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">”. All his life his instincts
remained those of an anarchist and his constant targets were the human
institutions such as the police, the military and the Church and the Academy
would seem a prime example. The group
mentality of the crowd or the mob made him very uneasy. Even small numbers banded together could
threaten individuality and he used to
say: “…..à plus de 4 on est une bande de cons" He was hostile to those who
attempted to assert authority over others and it would indeed have been
treachery to join an elite body who sought to lay down the law for all French
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Brassens did not identify himself with the croquants and the croquantes but
with the common people of town and country.
It is in the song “Le petit joueur de flûtiau » he makes clear why
he could never become an immortal of the </span><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Académie
Française. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In view of this, it might seem ironical
that later in life Brassens accepted a
major honour at a ceremonial of the Académie.
It was on 8<sup>th</sup> June 1967 that the Académie Française</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> awarded him le Grand Prix de poésie
in respect of the whole collection of his works. Brassens was sponsored by Marcel Pagnol and Joseph Kessel, who had led
the campaign for an official tribute to be
accorded to Brassens, acknowledging all his works over the years. Brassens was careful to let it be known that
he had never taken the least initiative to have his name put forward. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The majority
of people saw the Academy’s top prize for poetry as timely recognition for a
great man’s talents. </span></span><br />
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was duly modest about the literary status of his songs. He said:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: FR;">« Je ne pense pas être un poète… Un poète, ça vole quand
même un peu plus haut que moi… </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Je ne suis pas poète. J’aurais aimé l’être ……”. He expressed regret that he was not able to be a pure poet like the greats whom he
avidly read, such as Baudelaire, Verlaine and Rimbaud, Nevertheless he hoped that his songs
might offer a simplified access to poetry. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In fact, the many admirers of Brassens would find this modesty unjustified He crafted his songs carefully, using many
devices of poetry and gave his works true literary quality. As I select videos from U Tube, I am struck
how often French bloggers express first and foremost their admiration for the
poetic quality of the songs they have seen performed.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">However, after Brassens won the Grand Prix de Poesie there was a small minority that was outraged It was said that "a music hall singer" was
totally ineligible. It must have been
particularly painful for Brassens that some French satirists, with whom he would have previously
assumed shared sympathies, now made him their target.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In « Le
Canard Enchaîné » of the 14 juin 1967, Yvan Audouard published his
mocking version of Brassens’ award ceremony at the</span><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Académie. In his
piece there are teasing reminders of Brassens’ earlier declarations, a few years earlier in “</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Le petit joueur de flûtiau”. The satirist has not the least doubt that “Le joueur de flûte a trahi”, and offers his explanation for this betrayal. This is not flattering: he claims that Brassens’ </span><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">health problems have led to a </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">decline in his mental faculties: </span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">"<b><i>Brassens, en ce moment, il a des ennuis avec
ses rognons. Il a plus tout à fait sa tête à lui. Et puis il est si brave. Il
osera pas dire non</i></b> ». </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Brave” was the word Brassens used in
the last line of his song to commend the little flautist, and Audouard is
pointing to a betrayal of the principles in these lines:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Nul ne dise dans le pays<br />
Le joueur de flûte a trahi<br />
Et Dieu reconnaisse pour sien<br />
Le brave petit musicien.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The article
in the « Canard Enchaîné » asserts that the Grand Prix of the French Academy is
in some way the anti-chamber of the illustrious body. In accordance with this contention, a cartoon was published showing Brassens wearing the distinctive outfit
of an Academician. In reality Brassens was never elected to the Academy and never sought to be and was certainly never the man to wear this costume.</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The writings
of Yvan Audouard were well regarded and his humour is described as facetious
rather than malicious. Brassens may have
been amused by it. However the description of Brassens’ medical problems
remains very sad. He was certainly not
in mental decline but he was a very sick man.
He had suffered from kidney problems for many years. In the previous month – June 1967- he had
been taken seriously ill and had undergone surgery for a second time. In the bad periods, he performed with an
ambulance waiting at the stage door and the perspiration, in which he was bathed on stage, was attributable to his condition as well as
to his habitual stage fright. This
detail is not easy to pass over with laughter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Also among the critics at this time were lesser poets who felt themselves more qualified for the
award. In a famous little rhyme, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift" target="_blank">JonathanSwift</a> had once said that all poets should expect such irritation from their inferiors:</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So naturalists observe, a flea</span><span style="color: #252525; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">Has smaller fleas that on him prey;</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">And these have smaller still to bite 'em,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">And so proceed ad infinitum.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Thus every poet in his kind</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Is bit by him that comes behind.</span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jonathan Swift,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Poetry</i>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>A Rhapsody</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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David Yendleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09171810352548143316noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068332053655053423.post-13281891426619599032014-10-09T00:59:00.002+01:002017-04-17T22:40:53.090+01:00Le fantôme - Brassens extremely intimate encounter with a ghost<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is the amusing story of his own very
vivid encounter with a ghost and their fleeting relationship - very
Brassensesque !</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It leads us to consider Brassens' view of death - a major theme of his songs</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">C'était tremblant, c'était
troublant(1),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">C'était vêtu d'un drap
tout blanc,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ça présentait tous les
symptômes,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Tous les dehors(2) de la
vision,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Les faux airs de
l'apparition,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">En un mot, c'était un
fantôme !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">À sa manière d'avancer,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">À sa façon de balancer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Des hanches quelque peu
convexes(3),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Je compris que j'avais
affaire<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">À quelqu'un du genr' que
j'préfère<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">À un fantôme du beau sexe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Je suis un p'tit
Poucet perdu (4),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Me dit-ell', d'un' voix
morfondue(5),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Un pauvre fantôme en
déroute(6).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Plus de trace des feux
follets,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Plus de trace des osselets(7)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dont j'avais jalonné ma
route !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Des poèt's sans
inspiration<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Auront pris - quelle
aberration -<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mes feux follets pour des
étoiles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">De pauvres chiens de
commissaire<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Auront croqué - quelle misère
! -<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mes oss'lets bien garnis
de moelle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"À l'heure où le coq
chantera,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">J’aurai bonn' mine avec
mon drap<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Plein de faux plis et de
coutures !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Et dans ce siècle profane
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Les gens ne croient plus
guère à nous(8),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On va crier à l'imposture.
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Moi, qu'un chat perdu fait
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pensez si j'eus le cœur
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Devant l'embarras du
fantôme.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Venez, dis-je en
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Que je vous montre le
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Que je vous reconduise at
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mais la brise, et je l'en
r'mercie,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Troussa le drap de ma
cavalière(9)...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dame, il manquait quelques
oss'lets,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mais le reste, loin d'être
laid,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Était d'un' grâce
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Flèche facile en ce
temps-là,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Fit mouche(10) et, le feu
sur les tempes,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Je conviai, sournoisement(11),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">La belle à venir un moment<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Voir mes icônes, mes
estampes(12)...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Mon cher, dit-elle,
vous êtes fou !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">J'ai deux mille ans de
plus que vous...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">— Le temps, madam', que
nous importe !"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mettant le fantôm' sous
mon bras,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Bien enveloppé dans son
drap,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Vers mes pénates(13) je
l'emporte !<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Eh bien, messieurs, qu'on
se le dise :<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ces belles dames de jadis<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sont de satanées(14)
polissonnes(15),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Plus expertes dans le
déduit(16)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Que certain's dames
d'aujourd'hui,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Et je ne veux nommer
personne(17) !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Au p'tit jour on m'a
réveillé,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On secouait mon oreiller<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Avec un' fougu' plein' de
promesses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mais, foin des délic's de
Capoue !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">C'était mon père criant :
"Debout !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Vains dieux, tu vas
manquer la messe !"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mais, foin des délic's de
Capoue !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">C'était mon père criant :
"Debout !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Vains dieux, tu vas
manquer la messe !"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was trembling, it was troubling, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was dressed in sheet of pure white, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It presented all the symptoms, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All the aura of a vision, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The false airs of an apparition, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In short, it was indeed a ghost!
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">By the way it moved towards me,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">By the manner in which it swayed </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Its hips a wee bit rounded </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I understood I was dealing </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With someone o’ the gender I prefer </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With a ghost of the fair sex.
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"I'm a P'tit Poucet castaway, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She tells me in crestfallen tones, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A poor ghost totally vanquished." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">No trace left o’ will-o’-the-wisps</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">No trace left of the tiny bones</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With which I had marked out my route! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Poets lacking inspiration</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Seem to have mistaken- how wrong – </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My will ‘f the wisps for clustered stars. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some poor police dogs on the chase</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Seem to have gobbled – how awful! –</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My bones well furnished with marrow.
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"By the time the first cock will crow, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I will look a sight with my drape</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All full of wrong creases and torn!" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And these profane times we live in </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When folk scarce believe in us still, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They will shout that I'm just a fake.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"I, whom a lost cat moves to tears</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Think how my heart was afflicted </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Faced with the ghost’s predicament. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Come along, I said taking her hand, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Allow me to show you the way </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Let me take you back to your home." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The story would finish right here </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But the breeze, and my thanks for it, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Parted the drape of my companion...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Damn, a few small bones were missing, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But the rest, far from be’ng ugly, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Was of exceptional grace.
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My Cupid, who was very slick </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With his arrows in those days, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hit the mark and my temples fired, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I invited, insidiously, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The beauty to come a moment </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To see my icons, n’ engravings... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"My dear”, she said “you're crazy! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I’m two thousand years more than you...” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“- Time, madam', what does that matter!" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Putting the ghost under my arm, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well wrapped up in her drapery </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To my family home I took her!
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well, gentlemen, let it be told: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">These beautiful ladies of old </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Are the hell of sexy devils, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">More expert in art of loveplay</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Than certain ladies of today, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And I’m not naming anyone! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> At first light I was awoken, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">By some-one shaking my pillow</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With an ardour full of promise. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But ,pon the hay of Capua! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">T’was my father shouting: "Get up! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Yee gods, you're going to miss mass!" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But ,pon the hay of Capua! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">T’was my father shouting: "Get up! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Yee gods, you will miss morning mass!" </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Le
Fantôme - 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;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">tremblant,
c'était troublant – Brassens is using an effective alliteration and as both
words are used in English we can retain this.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">2)<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">les dehors de la vision – « Les dehors » are
the outward appearances, e.g. Robert quotes : « sous des dehors
aimables, il est dur » = under a friendly exterior, he is a hard man. </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">As I
will need synonyms for the word appearance, I note these options : </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">airs-
(false) front – mannerism - putting on airs – show – aura – semblance – bearing
– effect –</span></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> <span class="MsoHyperlink">feeling – presence - look.</span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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convexes, - Brassens was great admirer of a nicely rounded bottom see <a href="http://brassenswithenglish.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/venus-callipyge-this-song-was-inspired.html" target="_blank">VénusCallipyge </a><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;">4)<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">un p'tit Poucet
perdu – to describe how the ghost is lost and alone, Brassens relates her to
the character, of an ancient fairy tale, </span><span style="font-size: 16px; text-indent: 0cm;">well-known in France,</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0cm;">. This tale had existed in the spoken tradition
for centuries at the time in the 17th century when it was translated and adapted by <a href="http://wikipedia.orange.fr/wiki/Charles_Perrault%20in%201697" target="_blank">Charles Perrault </a></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0cm;"> Petit Poucet is the main character in this tale. He and his brothers and sisters were taken
out into the forest by their parents, who could not afford to keep them, with
the intention of losing them so that they would be killed and eaten by the
fierce animals and ogres that inhabited it.
(Like many of the traditional fairy-tales, it is horrific and sadistic.)</span></span><br />
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« dejected »- « crestfallen »<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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-« mettre en déroute » means to rout/ to put to flight<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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arthritic lumps on a horse’s fetlock.
There is a word “ossicles”,
which are small bones of the middle ear.
In the story of Petit Poucet, Petit Poucet knowing his parents’s
intentions dropped a trail of pebbles so that he could retrace his steps to get
back home. It seems that Brassens is
using “osselets” to mean little bones and he pictures the alluring skeleton
ghost leaving her track by using her own tiny bones. At one point in the tale Petit Poucet chose items for his track that were eaten by the animals of the forest<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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many people believe in ghosts these days, but a British T.V. show called “Most
Haunted” wins a big viewing audience.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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literally- female dancing partner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Fit mouche –
« Faire mouche » means to hit the bulls-eye, to score, to hit home.<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;">Sournoisement – sournois means deceitful- underhand</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Voir mes icônes,
mes estampes - </span><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 12.0pt;">The phrase "Want to come up and see my etchings?" is a
sexual euphemism by which a person entices someone to come back to their
place with an offer to look at something artistic, but with ulterior
motives. Wikipedia gives the full
history <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etching#.22Etchings.22_euphemism" target="_blank">at this link</a>.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->mes pénates – In Ancient Rome the Penates were
the gods of the household and they were worshipped.
The word comes from “Penus” – a Latin word for food (more usually alimentum).<span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 12.0pt;"> The French use “pénates” as a figurative
expression for home as in this poem.
Robert quotes the example: "regagner ses pénates"- to go back home.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Satanées – « satané » is an oath such
as “blasted” – “damn”- “confounded”<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Polissonnes – polisson means naughty as in “naughty
child ». but as in English can have the sense of saucy – randy – somewhat
sexy e.g. you may be told – “There were some naughty goings on at the party
last night.”<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->le déduit = enjoyment/ act of lovemaking. In old French « déduire » had the
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je ne veux nommer personne - I strongly
suspect that the person, whom he would not name, would be in the wings as he
sang this song. Joha Heiman, who was his
closest companion in his later years, seems to have lost interest in the
physical side of their relationship, while keeping a close eye to ensure that
Brassens did not find consolation elsewhere - see- <a href="http://brassenswithenglish.blogspot.co.uk/2008/02/je-me-suis-fait-tout-petit_08.html)" target="_blank">Je me suis fait tout petit </a> <span style="text-indent: -18pt;">Brassens makes repeated reference to his sexual deprivation in his songs - see <a href="http://brassenswithenglish.blogspot.co.uk/2008/02/aupres-de-mon-arbre.html" target="_blank">Aupres de mon arbre</a>.</span></span><br />
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is a city in Campania, Southern Italy. After
Hannibal’s rout of the Roman army at Cannae in 216 BC, he allowed his army a
period of rest there, before his final assault on Rome. The Roman historian, Livy, states that the
delights of the town and its ladies, were so great that his army was not in fit
shape for battle afterwards- hence Brassens choice of oath after an apparent night of sensual indulgence. (N.B.Other historians maintain that Hannibal’s men fought equally hard after their winter
break in Capua and so it probably did them no harm) </span> <span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Brassens and death</span></b></div>
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major theme -some claim the major theme- of Brassens’ songs. It is said that all his life he was attracted
to cemeteries and enjoyed going to funerals, even of those with whom he did not
have any close connection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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song, he meets one of the dead and together they enjoy close relations, but at the very end it
turns out to have been nothing but a strange dream that he had had in his early
youth, when he was still living at home and was still a practising Catholic
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As it is a dream about a ghost there is a temptation to use the word "nightmare", but the way Brassens tells it, in spite of the oddity, it is more like the "Sweet dreams" we wish each other at bedtime. One is bound to reflect that some of the sweetest moments of life are those that you waken up from. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In this boyhood dream, as retold
by the older man, there are ideas on death and the afterlife that are found in quite a number of other Brassens songs.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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continuing sexuality after death is found in his song <a href="http://brassenswithenglish.blogspot.co.uk/2008/02/oncle-archibald.html" target="_blank">Oncle Archibald</a>, where he
consoles himself that his Uncle’s sudden death was the instant occasion for his
sensual matrimonials with the female angel of death. Similarly when he envisages his own death and
burial in <a href="http://brassenswithenglish.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/supplique-pour-etre-enterre-la-plage-de.html" target="_blank">Supplique pour être enterré à la plage de Sète,</a> he imagines himself appreciating
the experience when ladies come to use the mound of his seaside grave as a seat, when they change into
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Brassens had given up his Catholic religion, he seemed to take for granted the
existence of an afterlife. However,
whereas the traditional Christian concept of heaven is the medieval ideal representing the power and magnificence of the elite, with king and judges in palatial settings, Brassens’ world of the dead is a relaxing, everyday and democratic place, Here he can at last live without the threat of mortality, that had haunted him all of his living days. Luxuriously,he can imagine spending eternity on a pedalo
off the beach at Sète. According to "le Phantome", Georges Brassens had the same instinctive feeling at the age of sixteen or seventeen. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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had a vision of heaven during one of her attacks of epilepsy and found it such an ordinary understated place, in spite of its absolute beauty and total peace. She describes her experience in the following poem:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 15.6pt;">Almost contented</span></div>
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David Yendleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09171810352548143316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068332053655053423.post-36316646672994150712014-09-25T00:12:00.001+01:002019-01-17T19:51:55.772+00:00Le vent - A lively song that celebrates Le Pont Des Arts in Paris<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This
is a very jolly, lively song, not too serious I would think, in which Brassens celebrates
one of the most famous landmarks of Paris – the footbridge over the Seine
called Le Pont des Arts. The following photo beautifully captures its setting in the heart of Paris. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For history of the bridge click this link to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pont_des_Arts" target="_blank">the Wikipediaarticle</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Brassens
is amused that the wind, no respecter of persons of whatever kind, mischievously strikes the bridge with its strong gusts, discomforting
and embarrassing stuffy people of all social classes.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">- </span><b><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Le vent</span></b><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(Refrain)
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Si , par
hasard , <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sur l'
pont des Arts , <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Tu
crois's le vent(1) , le vent fripon(2) , <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Prudenc'
, prends garde à ton jupon! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Si , par
hasard , <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sur l'
pont des Arts , <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Tu
crois's le vent , le vent maraud(3), <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Prudent ,
prends garde à ton chapeau ! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Les
jean-foutre(4) et les gens probes(5)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Médis'nt(6) du vent furibond(7)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Qui
rebrousse(8) les bois , <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Détrouss'(9) les toits , <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Retrouss'(10) les robes ... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Des
jean-foutre et des gens probes , <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Le vent ,
je vous en réponds(11), <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">S'en
soucie(12) , et c'est justic' , <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">comm' de
colin-tampon(13)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(Refrain)
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Si, par hasard,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sur l' pont des Arts,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Tu crois's le vent, le vent fripon,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Prudenc', prends garde à ton jupon !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Si, par hasard,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sur l' pont des Arts,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Tu crois's le vent, le vent maraud,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Prudenc', prends garde à ton chapeau !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Bien sûr
, si l'on ne se fonde <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Que sur
ce qui saute aux yeux(14) , <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Le vent
semble une brut' <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">raffolant(15) de nuire à tout l' monde <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mais une
attention profonde <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Prouv'
que c'est chez les fâcheux(16)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Qu'il
préfèr' choisir les victim's de ses petits jeux<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(Refrain)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Si, par hasard,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sur l' pont des Arts,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Tu crois's le vent, le vent fripon,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Prudenc', prends garde à ton jupon !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Si, par hasard,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sur l' pont des Arts,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Tu crois's le vent, le vent maraud,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Prudenc', prends garde à ton chapeau !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">The wind<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(Refrain) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">If, by some chance,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">On th’ Pont des Arts,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">You meet the wind, the impish wind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Take care, hold tight onto your skirt!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">If by some chance,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">On th’ Pont des Arts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">You meet the wind, the rascal wind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Watch out, hold tight onto your hat!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The bedraggled and prim'n proper<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Malign the furious wind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Which lifts the woodwork,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Strips tiles off roofs,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Blows dresses high….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Of </span><span style="font-size: 16px;">bedraggled and spick and span</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> ,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The wind, I guarantee you,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Frets about it, and quite rightly, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Not in the slightest bit. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(Refrain) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">If, by some chance,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">On th’ Pont des Arts,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">You meet the wind, the impish wind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Take care, hold tight onto your skirt!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">If by some chance,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">On th’ Pont des Arts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">You meet the wind, the rascal wind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Watch out, hold tight onto your hat!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Of course if you base yourself on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Only your first impression<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Then the wind seems to be a brute<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Crazy to do everyone harm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But a deep examination<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Proves that it's from the irksome people<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">He prefers to choose the victims of
his little games.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Georges Brassens - 1953
- Les amoureux des bancs publics<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Translation Notes (The Vocabulary)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1) crois's le vent ,= (Croiser quelque chose) to chance to run
into/ to bump into something - to pass someone or something coming in the opposite direction.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2) le vent fripon - the mischievous/ cheeky wind<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">3) le vent maraud – the rascally wind<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">4) Jean-foutre – My Petit Larousse tells me that "Je m'en foutisme" = insouciance. that means not giving a care about anything.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">5) des gens probes ,
upstanding upright right-minded. ( There is a contrast here that can make you think that Brassens is, typically, making a reference to social disparity. In this context, I think though, that he is merely saying here that the two extremes of contrasting dress styles reveal the complete range of people picked on by the mischievous wind.)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> 6) <span lang="FR">Médis'nt du vent (Médire de) –slander –speak ill of<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">7) vent furibond – furious – livid – angry wind<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">8) rebrousse les bois – brush up (e.g. hair) in the wrong
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">9) Détrouss' les toits – Strip the roofs -Détrousser means to
rob violently (eg in a hold up)- to fleece you of your possessions<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">10) Retrouss' les robes – hitch up/ hike up dresses – roll up
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">11) répondre de qch – to vouch for something</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">12) Il ne soucie pas de- he does not care about - he has no regard to</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">13) colin-tampon a
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">14) cela saute aux yeux – it sticks out a mile – it’s quite
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">15) raffolant de – raffoler de means – to be mad about – to be
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">16) fâcheux – upsetting – annoying ie something that is a
nuisance or a pain – disagreeable/ unpleasant – unfortunate/ untoward. I use "bad tempered." It is self-evident that those who, because their clothing has been violently blown about, become very annoyed or angry, will, at that moment at least, be the most bad tempered. <b>This is Brassens' little joke</b>.</span><br />
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David Yendleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09171810352548143316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068332053655053423.post-89926556786488904452014-07-08T15:52:00.000+01:002017-04-17T23:14:03.836+01:00L'Assassinat- A tale with great pathos of crime and punishment<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="color: #363636; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: 0.75pt;">The details of this tale may be brutal, but Brassens
has written a haunting song. When the
client of a prostitute refuses to pay the reasonable price that her youth and
beauty merited and her minder comes to intervene, we can expect things to get
very nasty. In spite of the violence,
this is a song of great pathos and many performers of Brassens’ music include “L’Assassinat”
in their repertoire.<span style="text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">C'est pas
seulement à Paris</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Que le crime
fleurit,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Nous, au
village, aussi, l'on a</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">De beaux
assassinats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Il avait la tête
chenu’ (2)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Et le coeur
ingénu,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Il eut un retour
de printemps</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pour une de
vingt ans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mais la chair
fraîch’, la tendre chair,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mon vieux, ça
coûte cher.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Au bout de cinq
à six baisers,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Son or fut
épuisé.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Quand sa menotte
elle a tendu’(3),</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Triste, il a
répondu</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Qu'il était
pauvre comme Job.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Elle a remis sa
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Elle alla quérir
son coquin(4)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Qui avait
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sont revenus
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Faire un bien
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Et pendant qu'il
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On dit que,
quand il expira,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">La langue ell'
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mirent tout sens
dessus dessous,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Trouvèrent pas
un sou,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mais des lettres
de créanciers,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mais des saisi’s
d'huissiers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Alors, prise d'un
vrai remords,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Elle eut chagrin
du mort</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Et, sur lui,
tombant à genoux,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ell' dit :
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Quand les
gendarm's sont arrivés,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">En pleurs ils
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">C'est une larme
au fond des yeux</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Qui lui valut
les cieux.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Et le matin
qu'on la pendit,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ell' fut en
paradis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Certains dévots,
depuis ce temps</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sont un peu
mécontents.(9)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">C'est pas
seulement à Paris</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Que le crime
fleurit,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Nous, au
village, aussi, l'on a</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">De beaux
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We in the
country too, we have</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Fine cases of
murder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">His hair was
white with his years</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">His heart was
innocent</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He felt a
revival of spring</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For a girl of
twenty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But flesh that’s
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After just five
or six kisses</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">His cash had all
run out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When she
proffered her tiny hand</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sadly he had to reply</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That he was poor
as Job.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She put back on
her dress.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She went off to
get her minder</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To whom money was
the sole aim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They came back
to the skinflint’s home</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To do a wicked
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Whilst he was
holding him for her</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She murdered the
man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">People say that
say when he expired,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She put out her
tongue at him.</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;">They turned the
place upside down</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And found not a sou,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But some letters
from creditors,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some baliffs’
seizure lists.</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;">And then,
gripped by sincere remorse, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She felt grief
for the dead </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And fell to her
knees over him</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pleading for
forgiveness. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When the
policemen arrived there,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lost in tears
they found her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">'Twas one tear
deep down in her eyes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Which earned her
place in heaven.</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;">And the morning
when they hanged her</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To paradise she
went.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some religious
folk ever since</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Have been
somewhat displeased.</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;">It is not in
Paris alone</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That serious
crime(1) is rife</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We in the
country too, we have</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Fine cases of
murder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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TRANSLATION NOTES<o:p></o:p></div>
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1) serious crime- I am adding an adjective to give a 6 syllable
line as in the French.<o:p></o:p></div>
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2) Chenu – ayant la tête chenue means having
a head of hair white with age<o:p></o:p></div>
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3) Sa menotte elle a tendue – The most usual
meaning of « La menotte” is the handcuffs.
However in informal talk, for instance to children it has the meaning of
“hand”. In English an informal word for
hand is sometimes “mitt”- e.g. “See if you can get your mitts on a smart pair
of trousers for me.” “Paw” also is
sometimes used.<o:p></o:p></div>
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4) Son coquin – « Coquin » as a noun or an
adjective describes some-one who is vile, without honour or honesty. It is
therefore a term used as insult. The
term can imply sexual immorality: “la
coquine” means the loose woman, the whore and “le coquin” -the “vile” man who,
in this story, would be the girl’s pimp.<o:p></o:p></div>
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5) Qui avait l'appât du gain – « l'appât »
translates “the lure” or “the bait” i.e terms used in fishing and hunting. “Le gain” is profit, remuneration,
money-making. – he was very attracted to making money.<o:p></o:p></div>
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6) Le grigou –a word used in the Langedoc
region for a very mean-spirited miser.<o:p></o:p></div>
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7) Faire un bien mauvais coup – Reverso dictionary
gives 2 alternatives: They say un mauvais coup is a familiar expression for-
i). acte malveillant – a malicious act ii). affaire qui se révèle infructueuse
– an affair that turns out to have unhelpful consequences. “Faire un sale coup
à q’n” translates: “to play a dirty trick on some-one”.<o:p></o:p></div>
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8) En pleurs ils l'ont trouvée – The girl’s
recognition of her evil deed and her total remorse is totally conveyed by her
behaviour. She did not seek to escape
but accepted her inevitable fate as though her life had no more meaning.<o:p></o:p></div>
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9) Certains dévots, depuis ce temps sont un
peu mécontents. - Some commentators have
said that the only villain in this tale is the girl’s pimp – the girl was
redeemed by her repentance, and her client was an innocent man, in desperate
straits, who genuinely failed to calculate the price that his pleasures were
incurring. These final lines, however,
mention two further guilty parties traditional in the songs of the Anarchist,
Georges Brassens, for their violation of natural justice: the Church and the
State:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>The Church</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Although
repentance and forgiveness followed by salvation were among the prime teachings
of Christianity, Church authorities took it upon themselves to decree upon whom
God granted this mercy. Brassens strongly, disapproves, that some devout people
still refused to forgive the poor girl, who had sincerely repented.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>The State legal
system</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Brassens was no
friend of the lawyers and his greatest reproach against them was their use
of the ultimate penalty of capital punishment (see Le Gorille). The hanging of this 20
year old girl shocks us.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>There is a very atmospheric recording of this song by the contemporary French singer Francart and it has excellent subtitles</b></span></div>
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A comment after the post on YouTube expressed the admiration for Francart that I feel as well:<br />
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This song is brilliant because it is so impacting in its human story. Francart's voice carries the emotion and the simple guitar accompaniment allows the lyrics to take hold with its underscoring of them. The story doesn't just go away when the song ends. I still hear his playing and his voice and the tragedy of the story still resonates.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Please <a href="http://dbarf.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/alphabetical-list-of-my-brassens-songs.html" target="_blank">click here toreturn to the alphabetical list</a> of my Brassens selection</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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David Yendleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09171810352548143316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068332053655053423.post-38534071305623422422014-06-15T16:28:00.002+01:002017-04-17T23:25:07.803+01:00L’Épave - Help given to him in desperate need makes one of life's casualties re-assess who is his good neighbour<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The narrator is a man who is left lying incapable in
the street, in mortal need of help. Those who come by are familiar
characters from Brassens' world, for most of whom, Brassens had previously
expressed admiration and sympathy in different songs: his local barman, a barefoot
vagrant, a penniless, long-term student, the good wife of a working
class man’ a hard-working street girl, a policeman. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Only one of these proves to be the good Samaritan
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<b><i>The
story reflects a dramatic event in Brassens’
later years. I have written an
account of this, which I have included after the translation notes so that you
view the song first.</i></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">J'en appelle à Bacchus ! À
Bacchus j'en appelle! </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(2)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Le tavernier du coin vient
d' me la bailler belle(3).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">De son établissement j'étais
l' meilleur pilier.(4)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Quand j'eus bu tous mes
sous, il me mit à la porte<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">En disant : " Les
poivrots, le diable les emporte!</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ça n' fait rien, il y a des
bistrots bien singuliers...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Un certain va-nu-pieds(5)
qui passe et me trouve ivre-</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mort, croyant tout de bon
que j'ai cessé de vivre<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (Vous auriez fait pareil), s'en prit à mes
souliers(6).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Pauvre homme ! Vu l'état
piteux de mes godasses,</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Je dout' qu'il trouve avec
son chemin de Damas.(7)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ça n' fait rien, il y a des
passants bien singuliers...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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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; font-size: 12pt;">Un étudiant miteux s'en prit
à ma liquette(8)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Qui, à la faveur d'la nuit
lui avait paru coquette,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mais en plein jour ses yeux
ont dû se dessiller.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Je l' plains de tout mon
cœur, pauvre enfant, s'il l'a mise,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Vu que, d'un homme heureux,
(9) c'était loin d'êtr' la ch'mise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ça n' fait rien, y a des
étudiants bien singuliers...<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;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">La femm' d'un ouvrier s'en
prit à ma culotte.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">"Pas ça, madam', pas ça
! Mille et un coups de bottes</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ont tant usé le fond que, si
vous essayiez<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">D' la mettre à votr' mari,
bientôt, je vous en fiche</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (10), <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Mon billet,il aurait du
verglas sur les miches(11)."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ça n' fait rien, il y a des
ménages bien singuliers...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><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;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Et j'étais là, tout nu, sur le
bord du trottoir<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Exhibant, malgré moi, mes
humbles génitoires.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Une petit' vertu(12)
rentrant de travailler,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Elle qui, chaque soir, en
voyait un' douzaine,</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Courut dire aux agents :
"J'ai vu quelqu' chos' d'obscène !"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ça n' fait rien, il y a des
tapins bien singuliers...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><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;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Le r'présentant d' la loi
vint, d'un pas débonnaire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sitôt qu'il m'aperçut il
s'écria : "Tonnerre !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On est en plein hiver, et si
vous vous geliez !"</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Et, de peur que j' n'attrape
une fluxion d' poitrine,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Le bougre, il me couvrit
avec sa pèlerine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ça n' fait rien, il y a des
flics bien singuliers...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Et depuis ce jour-là, moi,
le fier, le bravache,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Moi, dont le cri de guerr'
fut toujours : "Mort aux vaches(13) !"</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Plus une seule fois je n'ai
pu le brailler.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">J'essaye bien encor, mais ma
langue honteuse<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Retombe lourdement dans ma
bouche pâteuse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ça n' fait rien, nous vivons
un temps bien singulier...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I appeal to Bacchus! To Bacchus I appeal!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The landlord of our pub has just played the dirty on me</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Of his establishment I was the strongest pillar</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">When I’d drunk my last cent, he had had me slung out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Saying: "Drunkards, let them all go to the
devil "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">No big deal; there are some pubs most peculiar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A certain down and out, passes and finds me
dead drunk -.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Honestly believing that I have stopped living<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">(You would have done the same), made off with my
shoes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The poor man! In view of their pitiable state<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I doubt he’ll find with them his road to
Damascus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">No big deal; there’re some passers-by most peculiar.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A shabby looking student made off with my shirt <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Which, flattered by the dark, had seemed to
him real smart,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">But the light of day must have opened his eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I much pity him, poor kid, if he put it on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Shirt of a happy man" it was far from being</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">No big deal; there’re some students </span><span style="font-size: 16px;">most peculiar</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> .</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The wife of a workman made off with my trousers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Not those, Madame, not those!" A’thousand
and one boot-caps<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Have so worn the seat of the pants that if you
tried<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">To fit them on your husband, I bet my last cent<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He would get sheets of ice upon his
buttocks."</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">No big deal; there are some families most peculiar.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">And there I was stark naked, on the pavement edge</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Showing, despite myself, my humble genitals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A street girl, going back home from one of her
jobs ,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">She who, saw a dozen of the same every night,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ran to tell the police: "I’ve seen something
obscene!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">No big deal; there are some floozies most peculiar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The custodian of the law came sauntering up</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">As soon as he noticed me he exclaimed:
“Good grief!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We’re in depth of winter, what if you get
frozen!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">And for fear I might catch double pneumonia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The fellow, he covered me in his heavy
cloak,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">No big deal; there are some cops most peculiar...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">And since that very day, I, the proud, the loud
mouth,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I, whose war cry had been always: "Death to
the pigs!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Not one single time more could I yell it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I try very hard still, but my tongue to its shame<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Falls heavily back down in my mouth, where it sticks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">No big deal; we live in times most peculiar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<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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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; 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; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">1)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Épave – means wreck or shipwreck but
also a person who has fallen into an abject state. At first, I had seen this as a light- hearted song. However, having since learnt of a close friend , who had known glittering success but took progressively to drink and saw all the elements of his life disintegrate around him, I see the same situation in this song - the tragedy of addiction.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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à » means to appeal to- in this case to the Greek God of wine and
winemaking<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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are trying to deceive me”, “you are pulling the wool over my eyes”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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va-nu-pieds means a tramp or a beggar. In history “les Nu-Pieds” were the
common people of Normandy who rose in revolt in July 1639, reduced to misery by
a succession of bad harvests and an outbreak of plague. As the characters in
the song are representatives of Brassens’ earlier assocates perhaps the
barefoot man is a fellow impecunious revolutionary in pursuit of a
lofty ideal, whose realisation might or might not come like the flash of
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into<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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overwhelming moment of enlightenment as it was on the road to Damascus that St
Paul was converted with his vision of Christ<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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loin d'êtr' la ch'mise – The fable of the « Shirt of a happy man »
seems to be quite well-known in France, although I have never met it in
England. Jules Verne has a story about it and at the start of his “La
chemise d’un homme heureux”, he gives us an explanation, that helps us
understand this line: <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Once upon a time a son of the great Haroun-al-Raschid, who was not happy,
went to consult an old derviche. The wise old man answered him that
happiness was a difficult thing to find in this world. “However”, he
added “I know an infallible means of procuring happiness for you.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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reason of its shape it is also a rude word for a breast.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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standard abusive slogan used in France when violent extremists are restrained
by the police. The choice of cows as a symbol of oppression is most
puzzling as we think of them usually as animals peacefully chewing grass in
fields. A theory is that the expression dates back to 1914- 1918 War,
when the French people of the occupied Northern area shouted the slogan:”Mort
au Wacht”. The Wacht were the German police.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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was a in an activist Anarchist group, of which he was one of the leaders.
His song Hecatombe (1953) shows his earlier, bitter anti-police feelings, where
uses the slogan in the following lines (“<i>Elles”
refers to evil belligerent women in their mob</i>):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Frénétiqu' l'une d'elles attache<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Et lui fait crier: "Mort aux
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Mort aux lois, vive l'anarchie!"</span></i></b><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: FR;"><br />
</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">L’Epave is a song of his
mature years, when Brassens is pointing out that there is good and bad in us all,
no matter how we are labelled. Brassens
had had a dramatic personal reminder of this, when he collapsed
outside a theatre where he was performing (See below).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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songs onstage often show him sweating and looking strained. He
frequently suffered from excruciating stage fright and and the strain of his
stage performances was aggravated as time went on as his health collapsed. Sometimes
he went on stage when he was a very sick man, sometimes with an ambulance
waiting at the stage door. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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based, occurred on one such evening. In his dressing room, Georges
Brassens found himself gasping so desperately for breath that he was forced to
go outdoors without time to slip on his coat. As he struggled with
his problem, a policeman happened to pass by. He was alarmed to see
a man in such a state on a freezing cold night. Immediately, he took
off his heavy police cape and kept Brassens wrapped in it, until he was
sufficiently recovered to go back inside.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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song, the “Penelope” mainly in Brassens’ mind is not the virtuous wife of
Ulysses in the legend but the middle class wife, trapped by a rigid social code
in a marriage gone stale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brassens suspects however that she might, on the quiet, get private relief through the sensual flights of imagination, often involuntary, which
must occur to her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are able
to give her an exhilarating freedom and offer her consolation away from the
control of anyone else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The theme is
much the same as that in “<a href="http://brassenswithenglish.blogspot.co.uk/2008/03/fernande-brassens-lyrics-translation.html" target="_blank">Fernande</a>” and as it is the female version, perhaps the great singer Barbara can best convey its undertones.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Toi, l'épouse modèle, le grillon du foyer(2),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span lang="FR" style="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;">Toi, qui n'as point d'accrocs dans ta rob' de mariée,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span><span lang="FR" style="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;">Toi, l'intraitable Pénélope,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span><span lang="FR" style="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;">En suivant ton petit bonhomme de bonheur(3),<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="FR" style="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;">Ne berces-tu jamais en tout bien tout honneur<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span><span lang="FR" style="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;">De jolies pensées interlopes(4)?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">De</span><span lang="FR" style="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;"> jolies pensées interlopes...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Derrière tes rideaux, dans ton juste milieu(5),</span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="FR" style="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;">Les soirs de vague à l'âme et de mélancolie<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="FR" style="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;">N'as tu jamais en rêve au ciel d'un autre lit<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="FR" style="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;">Compté de nouvelles étoiles(7)?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">N'as-tu jamais encore appelé de tes voeux</span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="FR" style="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;">L'amourette qui passe, qui vous prend aux cheveux ?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="FR" style="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;">Qui vous conte des bagatelles,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="FR" style="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;">Qui met la marguerite au jardin potager(8),<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="FR" style="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;">La pomme défendue aux branches du verger,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="FR" style="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;">Et le désordre à vos dentelles?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="FR" style="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;">Et le désordre à vos dentelles...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="FR" style="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;">Cet ange, ce démon, qui, son arc à la main,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="FR" style="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;">Qui rend leur chair de femme aux plus froides statues,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="FR" style="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;">Les bascul' de leur socle, bouscule leur vertu,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="FR" style="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;">Arrache leur feuille de vigne(9)?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="FR" style="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;">Arrache leur feuille de vigne...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="FR" style="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;">Il n'y a vraiment pas là de quoi fouetter un cœur(10)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="FR" style="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;">Qui bat la campagne et galope (10)!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="FR" style="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;">C'est la faute commune et le péché véniel(11),<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="FR" style="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;">C'est la face cachée de la lune de miel(12)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Et la rançon de Pénélope.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">You the
model wife, domestic paragon,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">You who
have no snags at all in your bridal gown <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">You, the
intractable Penelope, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">At your
little fellow’s beck and call<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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ever cradle in all honesty<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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pretty thoughts that just sneak in <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Some
pretty thoughts that just sneak in <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Behind
your curtains in your so correct world,</span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Waiting
for suburban Ulysses’ return, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">While engrossed
in your needlework, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">On
evenings of emptiness and brooding <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Have you
ever, in dreams, on top a different bed <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Counted
stars quite novel to you? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Counted
stars quite novel to you?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Have you never
called out to the object of</span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Your desires,
who chances by, grabs you by the hair? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Who tells you some sweet nothings, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Who puts
the wild daisy in the kitchen garden, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Puts the
forbidden fruit onto<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the orchard
boughs<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">And gets your lace garments all tangled up<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">And gets your lace garments all tangled </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Have you
never wished to bump into again <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">That
angel, that demon, who his bow in hand, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Fires some
cunning arrows <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Who restores their woman's flesh to coldest statues<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Rocks them
from their pedestal, topples their virtue,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Snatches off their figleaf’s cover?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Snatches off their figleaf’s cover?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Have no
fear that heaven might hold you to account<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">There’s really nothing over which to lash a heart <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">That is led astray and goes wild<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">It’s a common failing, merely venial sin<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">It’s the
hidden side of the honeyed moon <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">And the </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">ransom of </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Penelope </span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Pénélope – In
greek mythology, Penelope is the wife of Odyseus (Ulysses in the Latin legend).
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">After his
victory in Troy, Ulysses’s journey home was constantly delayed and other men
assuming his death, courted Penelope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She resisted all pressure and remained faithful to Ulysses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has become the symbol of the
ever-faithful wife.</span><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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chimney cricket lived in the ash of the wide chimneys of olden times<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>its chirping was believed to be a sign of
good luck and happiness in that household. The perfect wife in the poem is the
representation of the same.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12pt;">En
suivant ton petit bonhomme de bonheur,<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="4"></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This phrase tells us that she was happy to
take a subservient role letting her husband take the lead.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12pt;">De jolies
pensées interlopes?<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="6"></a> – Interlope comes from the English word
« interloper”, which is some-one who enters secretly, illicitly and is
unwelcome <o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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</span>There could be two meanings for milieu.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Firstly it could mean her sense of moderation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have chosen a second meaning of « le
milieu social ».<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">The setting is behind the discreetly closed curtains of a middle class
suburban home.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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the 1930s and 1940s, conscientious wives would spend a lot of time sewing,
repairing and making clothes and furnishings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The relevance to Penelope is that she made her sewing an excuse for
refusing the proposals of her many suitors, saying that she had first to
complete the sewing othe shroud she was making for her elderly father-in- law-
and she was careful to make very slow progress</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Compté de nouvelles étoiles?<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="14"></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Compter les étoiles – In
the dictionary, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>le Littré, we read that
« Compter les étoiles » means to waste your time on an unprodutive
remote task. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In this poem, the stars were on
the canopy over the bed that she shared with her husband and her conventional
sexual routine was performed lying on her back looking up, counting the stars
and paying little attention to what was happening to her down below.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Qui met la marguerite au
jardin potager,<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="20"></a> - In his song « La non-demande en
mariage », Brassens once again associates the daisy and domestic life: <br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A
aucun prix moi je ne veux <br />
Effeuiller dans le pot-au-feu la marguerite. <br />
</i></b></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The daisy
is the symbol of love and the vegetable garden is the symbol of domesticity and
the home. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The context of both poems is
extramarital relationship.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Arrache
leur feuille de vigne?<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="30"></a> – In English we talk of the fig-leaves
and in French of the vine-leaves, which were superimposed on works of art out
of prudery, when the artist had depicted sexual parts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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have a contraction of two expressions (a): "il n'y a pas de quoi fouetter
un chat" which means that it is something of no great importance and (b) "un
esprit qui bat la campagne" which means a mind that gets
misled by unreasonable arguments.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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péché véniel,<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="36"></a> - These are minor sins as defined in the Catholic Church. According to Catholic doctrine, people who die while burdened with mortal sin will be sent
to burn forever in Hell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
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person are classed by the Church as « Sins of the mind ». and these are normally treated as venial sins, which implies excusable
sins. </span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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not sure whether, in English, we have any picture of an actual moon when we
talk about the honeymoon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In French
there seems to be an awareness of moon + honey, so that Brassens can make this
image of the visible side of the moon and the dark side of the moon, representing
our public lives and the private lives of our thoughts and imaginings. It
cannot surprise us that Brassens, the great libertarian is making the case, in
this song, that prisoners of circumstance, symbolised by Penelope, should be allowed
to soar totally free in their personal space.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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this poem, a survey was published, which stated that couples </span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">in relationships had less sex than couples used to
have 20 years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Times columnist,
Janice Turner, in her article on November 28<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> 2013, commented on
these findings, and in her last paragraph suggested an explanation of private
sex that seemed to be relevant to this poem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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exhausted, working on their laptops and smart phones, claims the study. Or
maybe with their shiny devices, high-speed broadband and websites for the most
specialised peccadillos, they have sex, just on their own.</span></i></b><br />
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David Yendleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09171810352548143316noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068332053655053423.post-79787779083749515092013-09-23T23:31:00.002+01:002017-04-21T21:51:06.298+01:00Au bois de mon coeur - the opening sequence of a film<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is a song that Brassens wrote for “Porte des Lilas” the only film that he ever acted in. René Clair directed the film and in the You Tube clip that I have posted after the text of the song we see its opening sequence. The words of the song had no connection with the plot of the film except for the mention of flowers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is another of Brassens songs, where he pays tribute to the circle of buddies who support him throughout life. Their friendship is tireless, undemanding and endless. Sentimentality is destroyed by Brassens’ humour: he says that his friends embellish his life just as the flowers embellish the various woods around Paris. – the analogy between his sturdy friends and little flowers is deliberately incongruous. His choice of situations to illustrate when they have been faithfully at his side is also not too serious- at his many marriages and his many deaths!
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Au bois de mon cœur<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Au bois d'
Clamart y' a des petit's fleurs,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Y' a des
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Y' a des
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Au, au bois
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Au fond de d'
ma cour j' suis renommé,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Au fond de d'
ma cour j' suis renommé,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Pour avoir le
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Le coeur mal
famé.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Au bois d'
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plus d' vin dans mon tonneau,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Dans mon
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">De boire mon
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Au, au bois
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ils
m'accompagnent à la mairie,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ils
m'accompagnent à la mairie,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">À la mairie,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Chaque fois
que je me marie,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Que je me
marie.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p>Au bois d' Meudon y' a des petit's fleurs,<o:p></o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Y' a des petit's
fleurs,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Y' a des
copains au, au bois d' mon coeur,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Au, au bois
d' mon coeur.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Chaqu' fois
qu' je meurs, fidèlement<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">33Chaqu' fois
qu' je meurs, fidèlement<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Fidèlement<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ils suivent
mon enterrement,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Mon
enterrement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Des petites
fleurs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Des petites fleurs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Au, au bois
d' mon coeur...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Au, au bois
d' mon coeur...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1957 - Je me
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Down
in the woods of my heart<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In the woods of Clamart are little
flowers,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">There are little flowers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">There are good mates in the woods
of my heart,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In the woods of my heart<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Down in my backyard, I am
well-known,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Down in my backyard, I am
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I am most well-known</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">For having an infamous heart,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">An infamous heart.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In the woods of Vincennes are
little flowers,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">There are little flowers,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">There are good mates in the woods
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In the woods of my heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">When there’s no wine left in my
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">When there’s no wine left in my
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In my barrel,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">They are not scared to drink my
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">To drink my water.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In the woods of Saint-Cloud are little
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">There are little flowers,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">There are good mates in the woods
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In the woods of my heart<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">They go off with me to the
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">They go off with me to the
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Go to the town-hall,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Each time that I get myself wed,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I get myself wed.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In the woods of Meudon are
little flowers,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">There are little flowers,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">There are good mates in the woods
of my heart,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In the woods of my heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Each time that I die, faithfully<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Each time that I die, faithfully<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">So faithfully<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">They are there at my funeral, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">At my funeral.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Some little flowers,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Some little flowers,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In the woods of my heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In the woods of my heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Raymond Buissières, as the barman, and the half Vietnamese actress, Dany
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some
commentators assume that the little flowers that Brassens describes in the woods of Paris are
hookers. Historians have corrected them
by noting that it was a number of years after the date of the song that the
Paris woods became the haunts of prostitutes. </span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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David Yendleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09171810352548143316noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068332053655053423.post-62433755099286436592013-09-02T11:00:00.000+01:002017-04-25T22:25:23.840+01:00Le cocu- a plea for consideration for the man who has to share the wife he loves.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In this song, Brassens describes the hurt and cruel
humiliation suffered by a husband when his wife insists on continuing her
sexually free lifestyle after their marriage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We might doubt the sincerity of the indignation that Brassens shows as
he frankly admitted his preference for the freedom from commitment which
affairs with married women permitted him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He said that Parisian women offered a wealth of opportunity and he
himself made cuckolds of numerous husbands, most prominently, of his host, Marcel
Planche.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">However, Brassens felt that
this arrangement of three and more in a marriage, however convenient and even
normal, should be conducted with discretion, while showing the utmost
consideration to the husband.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this
poem, he condemns those who fail to do this as ignorant, self-centered boors.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Comme elle n'aime pas
beaucoup la solitude,<br />
Cependant que je pêche et que je m'ennoblis(1),<br />
Ma femme sacrifie à(2) sa vieille habitude<br />
De faire à tout venant les honneurs de mon lit<br />
De faire à tout venant les honneurs de mon lit.<br />
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Eh ! oui, je suis cocu,
j'ai du cerf sur la tête(3),<br />
On fait force de trous (4)dans ma lune de miel,<br />
Ma bien-aimée ne m'invite plus à la fête<br />
Quand ell' va faire un tour jusqu'au septième ciel<br />
Quand ell' va faire un tour jusqu'au septième ciel.<br />
<br />
Au péril de mon cœur, la malheureuse écorne(5)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Le pacte conjugal et me le
déprécie,<br />
Que je ne sache plus où donner de la corne(6)<br />
Semble bien être le cadet de ses soucis<br />
Semble bien être le cadet de ses soucis.<br />
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Les galants de tout poil viennent boire en mon
verre,<br />
Je suis la providence des écornifleurs(7),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On cueille dans mon dos(8) la tendre
primevère (9)<br />
Qui tenait le dessus de mon panier(10) de fleurs.<br />
Qui tenait le dessus de mon panier de fleurs.<br />
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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;">En revenant fourbu de la
pêche à la ligne,<br />
Je les surprends tout nus dans leurs débordements.<br />
Conseillez-leur le port de la feuille de vigne(11),<br />
Ils s'y refuseront avec entêtement<br />
Ils s'y refuseront avec entêtement.</span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Souiller mon lit nuptial,
est-c'que ça les empêche<br />De garder les dehors de la civilité ?<br />
Qu'on me demande au moins si j'ai fait bonne pêche,<br />
Qu'on daigne s'enquérir enfin de ma santé.</span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Qu'on daigne s'enquérir enfin de ma santé !</span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">De grâce, un minimum
d'attentions délicates<br />
Pour ce pauvre mari qu'on couvre de safran(12) !<br />
<br />
Le cocu, d'ordinaire, on le choie, on le gâte,<br />
On est en fin de compte un peu de ses parents<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="40"></a><br />
On est en fin de compte un peu de ses parents<br />
<br />
À l'heure du repas, mes rivaux détestables<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ont encor' ce toupet de
lorgner ma portion !<br />
Ça leur ferait pas peur de s'asseoir à ma table.<br />
Cocu tant qu'on voudra, mais pas amphitryon(13)<br />
Cocu tant qu'on voudra, mais pas amphitryon.<br />
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Partager sa moitié(14),
est-c'que cela comporte<br />
Que l'on partage aussi la chère et la boisson(15)</span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Je suis presque obligé de
les mettre à la porte,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Et bien content s'ils
n'emportent pas mes poissons</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">
Et bien content s'ils n'emportent pas mes poissons.<br />
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Bien content qu'en partant
ces mufles ne s'égarent<br />
Pas à mettre le comble à leur ignominie<br />
En sifflotant "Il est cocu, le chef de gare...(16) "<br />
Parc' que, le chef de gar', c'est mon meilleur ami(17)<br />
Parc' que, le chef de gar', c'est mon meilleur ami.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(1958 - Le pornographe, 9)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As she doesn’t much like being on her own Whilst I’m off on my noble
pastime of fishing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My wife devotes herself to her previous habit </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Of granting all comers the honours of my bed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Of granting all comers the honours of my bed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ah ! Yes, I’m a cuckold, I’ve antlers on my head, Men pepper illicit
holes in my honeymoon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My love invites me to the party no longer </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When she’s going on a trip to seventh heaven</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When she’s going on a trip to seventh heaven<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;">Hazarding my heart, the unfortunate girl breaks </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The conjugal pact and just laughs it off to me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That I’m now being driven off my antlered head</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Seems clearly to be the least of her worries</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Seems clearly to be the least of her worries<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;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All kinds of would-be lovers come drink from my glass</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am the god-send for the sneaks who come sniffing </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They pluck behind my back the tender primula Which
had pride of place in my bouquet of flowers </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Which had pride of place in my bouquet of flowers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On returning dead beat from long hours of angling </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I surprise them stark naked in their excesses </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Advise them to cover themselves with a fig-leaf </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They will refuse to do in the most stubborn way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They will refuse to do in the most stubborn way. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To defile my marriage bed, is that what stops them </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">From preserving the trappings of civility? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Let them ask me at least if the fishing went well.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Let them deign to enquire how I have been keeping!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Let them deign to enquire how I have been keeping!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For pity’s sake display a minimum of thought </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For this poor husband whom they smother in saffron ! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The cuckold normally is pampered, he is spoilt For we are, after all,
in one way, related.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For we are, after all, in one way, related.</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;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When mealtimes approach, my detestable rivals</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Have the cheek furthermore to eye my helping</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They would have no qualms at sitting at my table</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Cuckold as much as you like but not amphitryon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Cuckold as much as you like but not amphitryon</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;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To share one’s better half, does that really entail That you share
food and drink at your table as well</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am almost forced to throw them out of the house </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And am so pleased if they don’t run off with my fish.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And am so pleased if they don’t run off with my fish.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm pleased that on leaving these oafs don’t go so far </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As to stretch their ignominy to its limit </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">By whistling “He’s a cuckold the stationmaster » </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Because,
the stationmaster, he’s my very best friend </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Because, the stationmaster, he’s my very best friend</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">TRANSLATION NOTES<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">1) je
m'ennoblis - French commentators disagree about how he ennobles
himself by fishing <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">2) Ma
femme sacrifie à – Brassens often uses the verb "sacrifier" with the
preposition « à » with the meaning of « to devote oneself
to » and there is often as here a sexual connotation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">3) je
suis cocu, j'ai du cerf sur la tête – In France, the very well-known symbol of
a cuckold is the wearing of deer’s antlers on the head, Once again
French commentators dispute the source of this association. One
suggestion that fits quite neatly is based on the legend of the Celtic god ,
Cernunnos. He represented fertility and wore deers’ antlers. He
was the husband of the goddess “Earth”, who was unfaithful to him on numerous
occasions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">4) On
fait force de trous – The Le Littré dictionary says : faire un trou à la
lune veut dire s'enfuir de nuit pour une mauvaise affaire. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The idea is of a
furtive, wicked act. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">5</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt;">) </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">la malheureuse écorne
– “écorner” means to damage by chipping away at. Brassens chooses the word
because it contains the word “corne” – horn – thus damage by cucoldry<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">6) Que
je ne sache plus où donner de la corne – There is a French expression :
"ne plus savoir où donner de la tête" which means that you are
overwhelmed by events. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In this case the head is wearing horns.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">7) la
providence des écornifleurs – Larousse says that un écornifleur is a
pique-assiette – some-one who pinches the meals of others. The elements of the
word seem to fit the particular misdeed in question here – “écorner” discussed
above and “renifler” to sniff.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">8) On
cueille dans mon dos – « faire quelque chose dans/ derrière le dos de
quelqu’un » means to do something behind someone’s back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">9) la tendre primevère- A
primevère is a primula or primrose- a spring flower symbolizing young
romance. Brassens uses this image in other songs with strong sexual
connotations<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">10) </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">le
dessus du panier – the pick of the bunch, (sociological sense) – the social
crust.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">(11) le
port de la feuille de vigne,-. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Brassens is amused to make a passing reference to
the campaign of prudery by the Church. When Michaelangelo and others had
adorned the palatial cathedrals with their art, they had included grand naked
figures in the tradition of the art of Ancient Greece. As a
result, the nominally celibate dignitaries of the Church, found
themselves processing under an array of penises, pudenda, buttocks and
breasts. During the Counter-Reformation, in the mid C16th, the
Councils of Trent forbade this sexual depiction in church art. For paintings,
the offending body parts were obscured by adding bits of drapery and foliage,
but the only way of doing it on statues was by attaching fig leaves. The
cover-up, involving the defacement and destruction of artistic masterpieces,
went on for the next 450 years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">12) Couvrir de safran – In
France, yellow is the colour that represents deceived husbands and so
"accommoder son mari au safran" means to have adultery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">13) Amphitryon – In </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.0pt;">Greek mythology, he was the son son of Alcaeus, king of </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt;">Tiryns. </span><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-size: 12.0pt;">During his absence, his wife, Alcmene, became
pregnant by Zeus, who had disguised himself . When her husband
returned, she became pregnant again by him and from these unions twin boys were
born. Brassens is exploiting two ideas from this story: the adultery and a
guest who abuses the hospitality of his host, eating his food.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">14)</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 7pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Partager sa moitié –
As in English e.g. “my better half”, « moitié » is used
humorously to mean « wife »</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">15)</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 7pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">la chère et la
boisson – La chère means food as in the English « good cheer », which
means food and drink. Perhaps Brassens also wanted the second
meaning: “the dear girl.”</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">16)</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 7pt;"> </span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">"Il est cocu,
le chef de gare..- </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">This is a famous French popular song on the subject of
cuckoldry. The stationmaster is busy all hours of the day and night,
being important on the platform in his official uniform. All this time, his
wife is free to enjoy herself with whichever men sneak into her bed.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -18pt;">17)</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 7pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -18pt;">le chef de gar', c'est mon meilleur ami – Although this verse is
flippant, it seems to be a psychological truth that we are often more upset to
see another person in the same predicament than we are for
ourselves. Perhaps this is because in our own case, elements of
self-blame come into play. The man describing his unhappy situation
in this song probably realizes that in spite of her outrageous behaviour, he is
still in love with the girl and the one outcome that he cannot contemplate is
losing her. His humiliation is thus his
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David Yendleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09171810352548143316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068332053655053423.post-1361853325520364502013-08-25T21:49:00.000+01:002017-04-18T10:33:24.214+01:00Les sabots d'Helene - the bistro owner's beautiful wife who once tugged his heartstrings<br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">This song of admiration and affection was dedicated to
the attractive young woman, who, with her husband, ran the “café charbon” at
the corner the rue Bardinet and the rue Alésia, opposite the Impasse Florimont,
where Georges Brassens lived with his Jeanne and her husband. Marcel<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Planche .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>During the early years, Brassens was a regular at the café and was sometimes
too hard up to pay for his drinks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His
understanding hostess was Hélène Malet-Orsal <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and Brassens joined his composition with the
traditional popular song, “En passant par la Lorraine” which had another Hélène
as its heroine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Perhaps that made the
song less personal to Helene’s husband, who must surely have had mixed feelings
about the compliment.)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Les sabots d'Hélène(1)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Étaient tout crottés,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Les trois capitaines l'auraient(2) appelée vilaine(3),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Et la pauvre Hélène<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Était comme une âme en peine...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Ne cherche plus longtemps de fontaine,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Toi qui as besoin d'eau(4),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Ne cherche plus: aux larmes d'Hélène<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Va-t'en remplir ton seau.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Moi j'ai pris la peine(5)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">De les déchausser,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Les sabots d'Hélèn' moi qui ne suis pas capitaine,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Et j'ai vu ma peine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Bien récompensée...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Dans les sabots de la pauvre Hélène,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Dans ses sabots crottés,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Moi j'ai trouvé les pieds d'une reine(6)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Et je les ai gardés.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Son jupon de laine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Était tout mité,(6)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Les trois capitaines l'auraient appelée vilaine,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Et la pauvre Hélène<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Était comme une âme en peine...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Ne cherche plus longtemps de fontaine,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Toi qui as besoin d'eau(3),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Ne cherche plus: aux larmes d'Hélène<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Va-t'en remplir ton seau.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Moi j'ai pris la peine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">De le retrousser,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Le jupon d'Hélèn' moi qui ne suis pas capitaine,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Et j'ai vu ma peine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Bien récompensée...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Sous le jupon de la pauvre Hélène,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Sous son jupon mité,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Moi j'ai trouvé des jambes de reine,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Et je les ai gardées.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Et le coeur d'Hélène<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">N'savait pas chanter,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Les trois capitaines l'auraient appelée vilaine,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Et la pauvre Hélène<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Était comme une âme en peine...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Ne cherche plus longtemps de fontaine,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Toi qui as besoin d'eau(3),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Ne cherche plus: aux larmes d'Hélène<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Va-t'en remplir ton seau.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Moi j'ai pris la peine</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">De m'y arrêter,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Dans le coeur d' Hélèn' moi qui ne suis pas capitaine,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Et j'ai vu ma peine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Bien récompensée...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Et, dans le coeur de la pauvre Hélène,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Qui avait jamais chanté,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Moi j'ai trouvé l'amour d'une reine(7)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Et moi je l'ai gardé.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The clogs of Hélène <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Were all caked with mud<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The three captains, so they say, called her a sloven<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">And our poor Hélène<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Was like a soul in anguish…….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Don’t seek a fountain any
longer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">You, in need of water,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Seek no further :
from Hélène’s tears<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Go and fill up your pail.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I took the trouble<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">To pull from her feet,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The clogs of Hélène , I
who am no way a captain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">And I saw my trouble<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Most sweetly repaid…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Inside the clogs of our
poor <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Hélène<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Inside her clogs <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 16px;">mud-caked</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I found me the feet of
a queen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">And I have kept them mine<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Her woollen petticoat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Was all full of holes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The three captains , so they say, called her a sloven<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">And our poor Hélène<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Was like a soul in
anguish…….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Don’t seek a fountain any
longer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">You, in need of water,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Seek no further :
from Hélène’s tears<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Go and fill up your pail.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I took the trouble<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">To tuck right up high,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The skirt of Helen, I who am no way a captain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">And I saw my trouble<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Most sweetly repaid…...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Neath the petticoat of
poor Hélène<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Neath her skirt <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 16px;">moth-eaten</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I found me the legs of a queen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">And I have kept them mine.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">And the heart of Hélène<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Knew not how to sing,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The three captains, so they say, called her <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 16px;">a sloven</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">And our poor Hélène<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Was like a soul in
anguish…….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Don’t seek a fountain any
longer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">You, in need of water,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Seek no further :
from Hélène’s tears<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Go and fill up your pail.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I took the trouble <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">To stay on right there<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the heart of Hélène, I
who am no way a captain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">And I saw my trouble<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Most sweetly repaid…...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">And in the heart of our
poor Hélène<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Who had never sung before<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I found me the love of
a queen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">And I have kept it mine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">TRANSLATION
NOTES<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span class="commentaire"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">1)</span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "calibri";">These cafés charbon, grouped mainly in
the 11<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> arrondissement, had been set up in the 19<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup>
century by coal merchants who had come from the Auvergne region of Central
France.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their businesses sold coal but
also served wine and coffee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hélène
Malet-Orsal<span class="commentaire"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>did
not originate from the Auvergne but from Aubrac Le Cayrol in the Midi Pyrénées
region. She spent her life in the gentle reputation of being the </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Hélène of Brassens' song. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">She died in 1992, having returned to live in her native village of Le
Cayrol.</span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">2)</span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span class="commentaire">(Ils) </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">l'auraient
appellee vilaine - - In the original folk song there are three army captains
who treat Helen with contempt because of her poor, dirty peasant attire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think Brassens is gently teasing his own
Helen about her rustic background, as she comes from a remote country district
of France.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The original song reads:</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Avec mes sabots, </span></i><i><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ils m'ont appelée : Vilaine ! </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Avec mes sabots......</span></i><br />
<i><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></i>
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Brassens is using the conditional perfect tense and the normal translation would be be<i> "The captains would have called her". </i>However in French, the conditional is used in statements the truth of which is based on hearsay or fable e.g."<i>d'apres certains journaux du soir, une crise ministerielle serait imminente"</i></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">3)</span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Vilaine – Although the main meaning is
« ugly », “ vilain” also had the meaning of “coming from a village”
or “working class”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Helen, on her way to
Paris, seems very low class to these fine army officers. Brassens, of course, was
antipathetic to social snobbery and the military.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">4)</span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Toi qui as besoin d'eau – It wasn’t
water that the soldiers were craving for though!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">5)</span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Moi j'ai pris la peine – the phrase : « je perds la
peine » occurs once in the original folk-song but Brassens uses
« prendre la peine de etc » as a refrain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">6) mité means moth eaten.
I could have kept this adjective, but I did not like the rhythm it gave
me in this line of translation and I felt that I was expressing the same sense. I use the direct translation later.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">7)</span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Moi j'ai trouvé les pieds d'une reine –
In the folk song, the royal connection is introduced when the peasant girl
informs the officers, who had shown her contempt that the King’s son was in
love with her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had given her a bunch
of marjoram plants, which she had used her clogs to plant on the plain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If they flowered she would become Queen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brassens does not include this mysterious
tale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The woman whose praises Brassens
sings attains a regal dimension because of her physical beauty and the
character of her love.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">In the end this song of Brassens does
not have a close connection with the folksong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(We should add that Brassens does not use the traditional melody on
which “En passant par Lorraine is sung”.) </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">However the name of Hélène, the peasant
clogs, and the hurt of social snobbery were enough to give him the inspiration
for this personal song.</span></span> </div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Please <a href="http://dbarf.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/alphabetical-list-of-my-brassens-songs.html" target="_blank">clickhere to return to the full alphabetical list</a> of my Georges Brassens selection<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">THE ORIGINAL FOLK SONG<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The title of the original folk song <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is “En passant par Lorraine”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Surprisingly, it is included in collections of
chansons à boire, even though it has none of the salacious content of the
standard French drinking songs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
version of the folk song, at least,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is
very innocent.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"></span></span>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">
<o:p></o:p></span></span>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">En passant par
la Lorraine,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Avec mes sabots,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">En passant par
la Lorraine,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Avec mes sabots,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rencontrai trois
capitaines,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Avec mes sabots,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dondaine, oh !
Oh ! Oh !<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Avec mes sabots.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span><br />
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rencontrai trois
capitaines,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Avec mes sabots,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rencontrai trois
capitaines,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Avec mes sabots,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
</span><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ils m'ont
appelée : Vilaine !<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Avec mes sabots,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dondaine, oh !
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</span><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Avec mes
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</span><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Avec mes
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</span><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Puisque le fils
du roi m'aime,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Avec mes
sabots...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Il m'a donné
pour étrenne,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Avec mes
sabots...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Un bouquet de
marjolaine,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Avec mes
sabots...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Je l'ai planté
sur la plaine,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Avec mes
sabots...</span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">S'il fleurit, je
serai reine,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Avec mes
sabots...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">S'il y meurt, je
perds ma peine,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Avec mes sabots,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dondaine, oh ! Oh
! Oh !<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Avec mes sabots.</span><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><br />
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David Yendleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09171810352548143316noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068332053655053423.post-64622599543545979132013-08-06T22:38:00.001+01:002019-01-17T20:05:42.761+00:00Je suis un voyou -His early tender,sexual encounter with beautiful Margot<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">Brassens
once again takes delight in recalling his first youthful experiences of love,
the memories of which will remain with him always. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">(See also “La Première Fille” –
“Il suffit de passer le pont”.)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He tells us the story with his
usual frankness and humour -<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span> and
perhaps with a touch of conscience because he repeats that this behaviour was
due to his being a bad lot.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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appears to have been a delectable girl and Brassens was totally smitten by her. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>I wonder if she ever heard this song
dedicated to her. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>The man
that she later married would not enjoy it though.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Ci-gît au
fond de mon cœur une histoire ancienne,</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Un fantôme,
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Le temps, à
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mon bel
amour dure encore, et c'est à jamais...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">En trouvant
Margot,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Princesse
vêtue de laine,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Déesse en
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fleurs, le long des routes,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Le Bon Dieu
me le pardonne,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">C'était un
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m'a laissé faire,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Les fill's,
c'est comm' ça...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Puis j'ai
déchiré sa robe,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sans l'avoir
voulu...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Le Bon Dieu
me le pardonne,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Je n'y
tenais plus !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Qu'il me le
pardonne ou non,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">D'ailleurs,
je m'en fous,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">J'ai déjà
mon âme en peine :<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Je suis un
voyou.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">J'ai perdu
la tramontane<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">En perdant
Margot,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Qui épousa,
contre son âme,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Un triste
bigot...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Elle doit
avoir à l'heure,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">À l'heure
qu'il est,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Deux ou
trois marmots qui pleurent<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Pour avoir
leur lait...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Et moi j'ai
tété leur mère<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Longtemps avant eux...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Le Bon Dieu me le pardonne<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">J'étais
amoureux !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Qu'il me le
pardonne ou non,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">D'ailleurs,
je m'en fous,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">J'ai déjà
mon âme en peine :<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Je suis un
voyou.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Here lies deep in my heart, a story
from way back<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A phantom, a memory of one whom I
loved…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Time, with great strokes of his scythe
may make things his own<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">My beautiful love lasts on still, and
it’s forever…<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: 12.0pt;"> I totally blew my mind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">On finding Margot,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Princess in woollen clothes,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Goddess wearing clogs…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">If ever the wayside flowers,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Came to walk around<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It’s of Margot, no question<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That they would remind you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I told her: “Of the Madonna,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">You’re the true likeness! “<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">May the Good Lord forgive me,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It was slightly true…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">If he forgives me or not,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Besides, I don’t care,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">My
soul is lost already:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I’m a worthless wretch<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: 12.0pt;">The sweet girl went to vespers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To go down on her knees,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">So I took a bite at her lips<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">To find out their taste…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">She said to me most sharply:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“What are you doing there?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But she let me go ahead,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">With girls, it’s like that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I told her: “By the Madonna,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Stay with me always! “<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">May the Good Lord forgive me,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But each man for himself…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">If he forgives me or not,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Besides, I don’t care,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">My
soul is lost already:<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; font-size: 12pt;">I’m a worthless wretch</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="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> She was a good girl,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">At “mouth, what d’ye want?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I gobbled inside her bodice<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The forbidden fruits…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">She said to me most sharply:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">“What are you doing there?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">But she let me go ahead,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">With girls, it’s like that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Then I tore open her dress,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Without intending …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">May the Good Lord forgive me,,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I couldn’t resist!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">If he forgives me or not,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Besides, I don’t care,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">My
soul is lost already:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I’m a worthless wretch<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: 12.0pt;"> I totally blew my mind<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">On losing Margot,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Who married, against her heart,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A sad bigot…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">She’s sure to have right now,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">At this time of day,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Two or three babies crying<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">So they’ll get their milk…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">And I, I suckled their mother<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Long time before them <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">May the Good Lord forgive me,,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I was so much in love!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">If he forgives me or not,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Besides, I don’t care,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">My
soul is lost already:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I’m a worthless wretch</span>.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">TRANSLATION NOTE</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">1) perdre
la tramontane - Means « to go off one’s head ». La
tramontane is the north star , vital for correct navigation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Please <a href="http://dbarf.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/alphabetical-list-of-my-brassens-songs.html"><span style="color: blue;">clickhere to return to the full alphabetical list</span></a> of
my Georges Brassens selection</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The power and
immortality of first love</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The English writer and poet Thomas
Hardy fell in love first with a girl called Elizabeth Browne. Although
he hardly got to know her, her memory remained with him all his life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Here he talks to her in his old age,
aware that she is now probably dead.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Dear Lizbie Browne,<br />
Where are you now?<br />
In sun, in rain? -<br />
Or is your brow<br />
Past joy, past pain,<br />
Dear Lizbie Browne?<br />
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Sweet Lizbie Browne<br />
How you could smile,<br />
How you could sing! -<br />
How archly wile<br />
In glance-giving,<br />
Sweet Lizbie Browne!<br />
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And, Lizbie Browne,<br />
Who else had hair<br />
Bay-red as yours,<br />
Or flesh so fair<br />
Bred out of doors,<br />
Sweet Lizbie Browne?<br />
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When, Lizbie Browne,<br />
You had just begun<br />
To be endeared<br />
By stealth to one,<br />
You disappeared<br />
My Lizbie Browne!<br />
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Ay, Lizbie Browne,<br />
So swift your life,<br />
And mine so slow,<br />
You were a wife<br />
Ere I could show<br />
Love, Lizbie Browne.<br />
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Still, Lizbie Browne,<br />
You won, they said,<br />
The best of men<br />
When you were wed . . .<br />
Where went you then,<br />
Oh Lizbie Browne?<br />
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Dear Lizbie Browne,<br />
I should have thought,<br />
"Girls ripen fast,"<br />
And coaxed and caught<br />
You ere you passed,<br />
Dear Lizbie Browne!<br />
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But, Lizbie Browne,<br />
I let you slip;<br />
Shaped not a sign;<br />
Touched never your lip<br />
With lip of mine,<br />
Lost Lizbie Browne!<br />
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So, Lizbie Browne,<br />
When on a day<br />
Men speak of me<br />
As not, you'll say,<br />
"And who was he?" -<br />
Yes, Lizbie Browne!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that the word describes a man, an “odd bird” married to an attractive
wife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He prefers a good night’s sleep to
the physical side of marriage and his wife encourages him in the habit by
pretending to be a sleeping beauty in an unbreakable trance as soon as she gets
between the sheets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her romantic
interest appears to be found elsewhere, as in the scoundrel who tells this tale,
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À l'ombre du coeur de ma mie<br />
Un oiseau(1) s'était endormi<br />
Un jour qu'elle faisait semblant<br />
D'être la Belle au bois dormant.<br />
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Et moi, me mettant à genoux,<br />
Bonnes fées, sauvegardez-nous!<br />
Sur ce coeur j'ai voulu poser<br />
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Alors cet oiseau de malheur<br />
Se mit à crier Au voleur!<br />
</span>Au voleur! et A l'assassin!<br />
Comme si j'en voulais à son sein.<br />
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Aux appels de cet étourneau,(3)<br />
Grand branle-bas dans Landerneau (4):<br />
Tout le monde et son père(5) accourt<br />
Aussitôt lui porter secours.<br />
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Tant de rumeurs, de grondements,<br />
Ont fait peur aux enchantements,<br />
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Que je suis devenu chasseur(6),<br />
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Je cours les bois et les chemins.<o:p></o:p><br />
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In the shade of my darling’s heart<o:p></o:p></div>
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Good fairies, protect us!<o:p></o:p></div>
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On this heart I wanted to place<o:p></o:p></div>
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Frightened off all the enchantment<o:p></o:p></div>
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And the fair maid disabused<o:p></o:p></div>
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Closed off her heart to my kissing<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">1)</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: #333333;">Un oiseau – means a bird of course but it is also used
for a person in expressions like “un drôle d’oiseau= a queer bloke”.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">2)</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: #333333;">Une manière de baiser = a way of kissing. However, French
grammarians point out that in this construction “Baiser” can be either the noun
or the verb.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As “baiser quelqu’un” means
to have sex with some-one, it is very likely that we should have a stronger
verb than “kiss” here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such double
meanings were a great delight to Brassens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Commentators on this poem are very conscious that this is a poem on
Brassens album: “Le Pornographe.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some
of the misinterpretations of this short poem come from the over-assiduous
search for erotic references – for example one critic states categorically that
the bird in line two is a symbol for an intimate part of the female anatomy.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">3)</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: #333333;">cet étourneau – A double meaning – Usual meaning-
Starling, the name of a bird but it is also a word of abuse when applied to a
human being-= a scatterbrain. A dolt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brassens
keeps the bird image running.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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derivation is disputed but expressions which include the word “ Landerneau “
indicate a mighty commotion.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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fables, La Fontaine, who was much loved by Brassens, had in his fable :
« Le Meunier, Son Fils et l’Ane” the phrase “contenter le monde et son
père”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>meaning to satisfy everyone.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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but a « chasseur de femmes » is a Don Juan, a philanderer -which
would seem a more likely consequence of this experience <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>rather than becoming a hunter of game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However the next line talks of his crossbow
which would make him a true hunter, unless it is some kind of symbol.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The idea of a heartbroken hunter in the wilds
seems too sugary an ending for Brassens.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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practice, the scoundrel blames other people for making him what he is,
conveniently ignoring the fact that this “life- changing” incident occurred
because he was sneaking into bed with another man’s wife.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">A characteristic of
Brassens’ life was the close band of male friends that he enjoyed being a part
of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In his song of 1964, <a href="http://brassenswithenglish.blogspot.co.uk/2008/04/les-copains-dabord-ballade-des-dames-du.html" target="_blank">“Les Copainsd’abord”</a> he describes his inseparable mates who used to join him on his boat off
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d’Hector” it is the band of mates that he was part of in Paris before he knew
success.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Crowded together in the poverty
of their slum neighbourhood around the <a href="http://dbarf.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/la-princesse-et-le-croque-notes.html" target="_blank">Impasse Florimont</a>, the families appear
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">In this lighthearted, unsentimental song from his earlier album of 1958,
Brassens concentrates on the outstanding wife of one member of his Paris group.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are left to speculate about her identity
and the intimacy that Brassens shared with her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Some-one has claimed that he actually knew this woman who was a very
respectable <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>friend and neighbour, a
perfect wife and totally loyal to her husband. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I think he is mistaken and those
of us who have made an extended study of Brassens’ songs, would probably make a
different guess about <a href="http://dbarf.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/jeanne-by-georges-brassens.html" target="_blank">her identity</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
the last verses he says that it is to this one lady that he dedicates his art.</span></span><br />
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 231.05pt;" valign="top" width="308"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">En notre tour de Babel<br />
Laquelle est la plus belle,<br />
La plus aimable(2) parmi<br />
Les femmes de nos amis ?<br />
Laquelle est notre vraie nounou(3)<br />
La p'tite sœur des pauvres de nous(4)<br />
Dans le guignon(5) toujours présente<br />
Quelle est cette fée bienfaisante ?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span>
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">C'est pas la femme de Bertrand(6)<br />
Pas la femme de Gontrand<br />
Pas la femme de Pamphile<br />
C'est pas la femme de Firmin<br />
Pas la femme de Germain<br />
Ni celle de Benjamin<br />
C'est pas la femme d'Honoré<br />
Ni celle de Désiré<br />
Ni celle de Théophile<br />
Encore moins la femme de Nestor<br />
Non, c'est la femme d'Hector.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span>
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Comme nous dansons devant<br />
Le buffet (7) bien souvent<br />
On a toujours peu ou prou(8)<br />
Les bas criblés de trous<br />
Qui raccommode ces malheurs<br />
De fils de toutes les couleurs<br />
Qui brode, divine cousette (9),<br />
Des arcs-en-ciel à nos chaussettes?(10)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><br /></span>
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">C'est pas la femme de Bertrand<br />
Pas la femme de Gontrand<br />
Pas la femme de Pamphile<br />
C'est pas la femme de Firmin<br />
Pas la femme de Germain<br />
Ni celle de Benjamin<br />
C'est pas la femme d'Honoré<br />
Ni celle de Désiré<br />
Ni celle de Théophile<br />
Encore moins la femme de Nestor<br />
Non, c'est la femme d'Hector.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span>
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Quand on nous prend la main sac-<br />
-ré bon dieu dans un sac(11)<br />
Et qu'on nous envoie planter<br />
Des choux à la santé<br />
Quelle est celle qui, prenant modèle<br />
Sur(12) les vertus des chiens fidèles<br />
Reste à l'arrêt(13) devant la porte<br />
En attendant qu'on en ressorte ?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><br /></span>
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">C'est pas la femme de Bertrand<br />
Pas la femme de Gontrand<br />
Pas la femme de Pamphile<br />
C'est pas la femme de Firmin<br />
Pas la femme de Germain<br />
Ni celle de Benjamin<br />
C'est pas la femme d'Honoré<br />
Ni celle de Désiré<br />
Ni celle de Théophile<br />
Encore moins la femme de Nestor<br />
Non, c'est la femme d'Hector.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span>
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Et quand l'un d'entre nous meurt<br />
Qu'on nous met en demeure<br />
De(14) débarrasser l'hôtel(15)<br />
De ses restes mortels<br />
Quelle est celle qui r'mue tout Paris<br />
Pour qu'on lui fasse, au plus bas prix<br />
Des funérailles gigantesques<br />
Pas nationales, non, mais presque ?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span>
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">C'est pas la femme de Bertrand<br />
Pas la femme de Gontrand<br />
Pas la femme de Pamphile<br />
C'est pas la femme de Firmin<br />
Pas la femme de Germain<br />
Ni celle de Benjamin<br />
C'est pas la femme d'Honoré<br />
Ni celle de Désiré<br />
Ni celle de Théophile<br />
Encore moins la femme de Nestor<br />
Non, c'est la femme d'Hector.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span>
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Et quand vient le mois de mai<br />
Le joli temps d'aimer<br />
Que sans écho, dans les cours,<br />
Nous hurlons à l'amour<br />
Quelle est celle qui nous plaint beaucoup <br />
Quelle est celle qui nous saute au cou<br />
Qui nous dispense sa tendresse<br />
Toutes ses économies d'caresses ?(16)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><br /></span>
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">C'est pas la femme de Bertrand</span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Pas la femme de Gontrand<br />
Pas la femme de Pamphile<br />
C'est pas la femme de Firmin<br />
Pas la femme de Germain<br />
Ni celle de Benjamin<br />
C'est pas la femme d'Honoré<br />
Ni celle de Désiré<br />
Ni celle de Théophile<br />
Encore moins la femme de Nestor<br />
Non, c'est la femme d'Hector.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span>
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ne jetons pas les morceaux (17)<br />
De nos cœurs aux pourceaux<br />
Perdons pas notre latin (18)<br />
Au profit des pantins<br />
Chantons pas la langue des dieux<br />
Pour les balourds, les fesse-Mathieu(20)-<br />
Les paltoquets, ni les bobèches(21-22)<br />
Les foutriquets, ni les pimbêches,(23-24)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span>
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ni pour la femme de Bertrand<br />
Pour la femme de Gontrand<br />
Pour la femme de Pamphile<br />
Ni pour la femme de Firmin<br />
Pour la femme de Germain<br />
Pour celle de Benjamin<br />
Ni pour la femme d'Honoré<br />
La femme de Désiré<br />
La femme de Théophile<br />
Encore moins pour la femme de Nestor<br />
Mais pour la femme d'Hector.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In our tower of Babel <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Which woman is best looking <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Which most lovable among<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The wives of our close friends? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Which one is our true nanny<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Li’l sister of poor little us <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In the bad times ever present<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Which one is this good fairy? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It’s not the wife of Bertrand <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not the wife of Gontrond</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Not the wife of Pamphile<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It’s not the wife of Firmin <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Not the wife of Germain <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nor that of Benjamin <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It’s not wife of Honoré’s <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nor that of Desiré <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nor that of Théophile <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Even less the wife of Nestor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">No, it’s the wife ’f<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hector<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">When we often sing and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dance for our suppers <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We've always got stockings<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">More or less full of holes <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Who comes to mend these mishaps<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">With threads of ev’ry colour<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Who weaves, divine seamstress, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Vivid rainbows onto our socks?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It’s not the wife of Bertrand <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Not the wife of Gontrond <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Not the wife of Pamphile<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It’s not the wife of Firmin <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Not the wife of Germain <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nor that of Benjamin <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It’s not t’ wife of Honoré <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nor that of Desiré <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nor that of Théophile <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Even less the wife of Nestor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">No, it’s the wife ’f<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hector<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">When we’re damn-well caught total- ,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">-ly redhanded –good God<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">And they send us up to plant<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Cabbages in Santé jail!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Who is the one who modeling herself<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">On the virtues of faithful dogs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Stands unbudging outside the gate <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Until we can come out again?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It’s not the wife of Bertrand <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Not the wife of Gontrond <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Not the wife of Pamphile<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It’s not the wife of Firmin <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Not the wife of Germain <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nor that of Benjamin <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It’s not t’ wife of Honoré <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nor that of Desiré <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nor that of Théophile <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Even less the wife of Nestor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">No, it’s the wife ’f<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hector.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">And when one among us dies <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">When we are required<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">To go and relieve the hotel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Of his mortal remains<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Who is it that moves all Paris<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">To have arranged at bargain price<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">A funeral of lavish scale<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Not a State one, no, but almost? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It’s not the wife of Bertrand <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Not the wife of Gontrond <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Not the wife of Pamphile<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It’s not the wife of Firmin <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Not the wife of Germain <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nor that of Benjamin <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It’s not t’ wife of Honoré <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nor that of Desiré <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nor that of Théophile <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Even less the wife of Nestor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">No, it’s the wife ’f<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hector.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">And when comes the month of May<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The delightful time for love<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">When without echo, in the yards <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We howl out after love<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Who’s she who shows us great pity?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Who throws her arms around our necks?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Who serves us her endearments<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">All the caresses long saved up?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It’s not the wife of Bertrand <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Not the wife of Gontrond <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Not the wife of Pamphile<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It’s not the wife of Firmin <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Not the wife of Germain <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nor that of Benjamin <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It’s not t’ wife of Honoré <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nor that of Desiré <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nor that of Théophile <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Even less the wife of Nestor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">No, it’s the wife ’f<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hector<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Let’s not throw away the pearls<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Of our hearts unto swine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Let’s not waste our Latin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For the good just of jerks <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Let’s not sing the tongue of the Gods<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For the half wits, for the skinflints<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The wimp upstarts or stupid clowns<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Puny midgets or vulgar swanks.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Nor for the wife of Bertrand <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For the wife of Gontrond <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> the wife of Pamphile<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Nor</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> for the wife of Firmin <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> the wife of Germain <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> that of Benjamin <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Nor</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> for the wife of’Honoré<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The wife of Desiré <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The wife of Théophile <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Even less for the wife of Nestor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But for the wife of Hector.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<b><span lang="FR" style="color: #444444; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">La femme d'Hector – Translation notes</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #444444; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">1)</span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Some
commentators believe that Brassens chose this name because in the Greek myth,
Hector had a wife who was a model of virtue, like this admirable wife in his
song. This interpretation is invalidated by the later verse praising her for
the generosity of her sexual administrations to other men in need.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In note 5 below, I quote a more convincing
reason for the choice of name.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #444444; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">2)</span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">La plus aimable – In this panegyric<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>of the most outstanding wife of the men who formed his close group of
friends, the reader is left with the question how intimate the poet actually
was with this paragon of womanhood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
the translator, this arises immediately in the third line with the word
“aimable”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This can be a mild routine
word: “Merci vous êtes très amiable – “Thanks, you’re very kind”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More strongly it can mean: provoking your
love – likeable/lovable.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #444444; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">3)</span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Nounou = maternal assistant, nanny, baby minder, baby-sitter. </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #444444; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">4)</span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Des pauvres de nous – the self-pitying expression « Poor me! »
is translated in French as « Pauvre de moi ! ».<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a second play on words in this line
as « Les petites sœurs des pauvres » are members of a Catholic
religious community dedicated to the care of the old and under-privileged.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #444444; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">5)</span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Le guignon also expressed as « la guigne » -
means misfortune, rotten luck.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #444444; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">6)</span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Hector, Bertrand, Gontrand etc- These were not the real names of his
friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brassens enjoyed giving
nicknames and for this group he chose names that had been popular in
the previous century but which now sounded old-fashioned and amusing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was probably the only reason for his choice
of “Hector” in the title role.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I note
that the full name of the French Romantic composer, Berlioz, who lived from
1803- 1869 was Hector Berlioz.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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of hunger and poverty) </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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socks away because they had a hole in them - we darned them and we all had the
necessary weaving skills with the help of wooden mushrooms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was difficult to match the wool perfectly
and although the darns might stand out, there was no disgrace in such good
housekeeping. It is an amusing and endearing story that the good wife in the
story in her search for wool for her darns had to use differently coloured
lengths, so her darns were all the colours of the rainbow</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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to use s.o. as your example</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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stationary bus</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: FR;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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including hôtel-Dieu = general hospital, hôtel meublé = lodging house, hôtel de
passe = whorehouse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I cannot assume and
so I stick with hotel.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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</span>It is now no longer a secret that Jeanne Planche, the wife of his host,
Marcel, was the mistress of Georges Brassens and despite the big gap in age he
felt an undying love towards her - see my account in <a href="http://dbarf.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/story-of-georges-brassens-and-his.html" target="_blank">“The story of GeorgesBrassens and his Jeanne”</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>will be convinced that the real identity of
the wife of Hector is Jeanne.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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before swine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This is an expression from the New Testament<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that means to hand over to someone something
precious which they do not have the capacity to value. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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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 not imposed upon myself the impossible task of finding a precise English equivalent for each French oath. I feel that there are valid arguments which justify regarding an oath as a unique, national, cultural entity<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 to sort out these French swearwords in the translation notes that follow the script of the poem.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">- La ronde des jurons</span></span></b><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><br /><span style="font-family: "calibri";">
1 Voici la ronde(<b>a</b>) des jurons <br />
2 Qui chantaient clair , qui dansaient rond , <br />
3 Quand les Gaulois <br />
4 De bon aloi(<b>b</b>)<br />
5 Du franc-parler suivaient la loi , <br />
6 jurant par-là , jurant par-ci(<b>d</b>) ,<br />
7 jurant à langue raccourci'(<b>e</b>) , <br />
8 Comme des grains de chapelet <br />
9 Les joyeux jurons défilaient(<b>f</b>) : <br />
</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">(Refrain) <br />
10 Tous les morbleus , tous les ventrebleus , <br />
11 Les sacrebleus et les cornegidouilles , <br />
12 Ainsi , parbleu , que les jarnibleus <br />
13 Et les palsambleus , <br />
14 Tous les cristis , les ventres saint-gris , <br />
15 Les par ma barbe et les noms d'une pipe , <br />
16 Ainsi , pardi , que les sapristis <br />
17 Et les sacristis , <br />
18 Sans oublier les jarnicotons , <br />
19 Les scrogneugneus et les bigre' et les bougre' <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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Les saperlott's , les cré nom de nom , <br />
21 Les peste , et pouah , diantre , fichtre et foutre, <br />
22 Tous les Bon Dieu ,<br />
23 Tous les vertudieux , <br />
24 Tonnerr' de Brest et saperlipopette , <br />
25 Ainsi , pardieu , que les jarnidieux <br />
26 Et les pasquedieux. </span></span><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><br /><span style="font-family: "calibri";">
27 Quelle pitié ! Les charretiers(<b>g</b>)<br />
28 Ont un langage châtié(<b>h</b>) ! <br />
29 Les harengères(<b>i</b>)<br />
30 Et les mégères (<b>j</b>)<br />
31 Ne parlent plus à la légère ! <br />
32 Le vieux catéchisme poissard(<b>k</b>)<br />
33 N'a guèr' plus cours chez les hussards ... <br />
34 Ils ont vécu(<b>L</b>) , de profundis(<b>m</b>) , <br />
35 Les joyeux jurons de jadis<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span class="systrantokenword"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(185 , 231 , 253); color: #555555;">The</span></b></span><span class="systranseg"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(229 , 245 , 255); color: #555555;"> </span></b></span><span class="systrantokenword"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(229 , 245 , 255); color: #555555;">dance</span></b></span><span class="systranseg"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(229 , 245 , 255); color: #555555;"> </span></b></span><span class="systrantokenword"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(229 , 245 , 255); color: #555555;">of</span></b></span><span class="systranseg"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(229 , 245 , 255); color: #555555;"> </span></b></span><span class="systrantokenword"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(229 , 245 , 255); color: #555555;">the</span></b></span><span class="systranseg"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(229 , 245 , 255); color: #555555;"> </span></b></span><span class="systrantokenword"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: rgb(229 , 245 , 255); color: #555555;">swearwords</span></b></span></span><span style="color: #555555; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /><span style="font-family: "calibri";">
<span class="systrantokenword">Here’s</span><span class="systranseg"> </span><span class="systrantokenword">the</span><span class="systranseg"> </span><span class="systrantokenword">dance</span><span class="systranseg"> of </span><span class="systrantokenword">the</span><span class="systranseg"> swearwords</span> <br />
<span class="systrantokenword">Which</span><span class="systranseg"> </span><span class="systrantokenword">sang</span><span class="systranseg"> out clear</span><span class="systrantokenpunctuation">,</span><span class="systranseg"> danced as a'rondo</span><br />
<span class="systrantokenword">When</span><span class="systranseg"> </span><span class="systrantokenword">Gauls of old</span> <br />
<span class="systrantokenword">Worthy folk all</span> <br />
<span class="systrantokenword">Followed the law of plain-speaking</span><span class="systrantokenpunctuation">,</span> <br />
<span class="systrantokenword">Swearing</span><span class="systranseg"> </span><span class="systrantokenword">here there and everywhere</span><br />
<span class="systrantokenword">Swearing</span><span class="systranseg"> with hard-hitting words</span><span class="systrantokenpunctuation">.</span> <br />
<span class="systrantokenword">Like</span><span class="systranseg"> beads of a rosary</span>
<br />
<span class="systrantokenword">The</span><span class="systranseg"> merry oaths</span><span class="systranseg"> came
pouring out</span><span class="systrantokenpunctuation">:</span> <br />
<span class="systrantokenpunctuation">(</span><span class="systrantokenword">Refrain</span><span class="systranseg">)</span> <br />
<span class="systrantokenword">All</span><span class="systranseg"> the morbleus</span><span class="systrantokenpunctuation">,</span><span class="systranseg"> all the ventrebleus,</span>
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<span class="systrantokenword">The Sacrebleus</span><span class="systranseg"> and
the cornegidouilles</span><span class="systrantokenpunctuation">,</span> <br />
<span class="systrantokenword">Just as</span><span class="systrantokenpunctuation">,</span><span class="systranseg"> parbleu</span><span class="systrantokenpunctuation">,</span><span class="systranseg"> with the jarnibleus</span>
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<span class="systrantokenword">And</span><span class="systranseg"> the palsambleus</span><span class="systrantokenpunctuation">,</span> <br />
<span class="systrantokenword">All</span><span class="systranseg"> the cristis</span><span class="systrantokenpunctuation">,</span><span class="systranseg"> </span><span class="systrantokenword">the</span><span class="systranseg"> ventres </span><span class="systrantokenword">saint</span><span class="systrantokenpunctuation">-</span><span class="systranseg">gris,</span> <br />
<span class="systrantokenword">The par ma barbe</span><span class="systranseg">
and the noms d’une </span><span class="systrantokenword">pipe</span><span class="systrantokenpunctuation">,</span> <br />
<span class="systrantokenword">Just as</span><span class="systrantokenpunctuation">,</span><span class="systranseg"> pardi</span><span class="systrantokenpunctuation">,</span><span class="systranseg"> with sapristis</span>
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<span class="systrantokenword">And</span><span class="systranseg"> the sacristis</span><span class="systrantokenpunctuation">,</span> <br />
<span class="systrantokenword">Not</span><span class="systranseg"> </span><span class="systrantokenword">forgetting</span><span class="systranseg"> les
jarnicotons</span><span class="systrantokenpunctuation">,</span> <br />
<span class="systrantokenword">The scrogneugneus</span><span class="systranseg">
and the bigre</span><span class="systrantokenpunctuation">'</span><span class="systranseg"> and the </span><span class="systrantokenword">bougre</span><span class="systranseg">'</span><span class="systrantokenpunctuation">,</span> <br />
<span class="systrantokenword">The</span><span class="systranseg"> </span><span class="systrantokenword">saperlott</span><span class="systrantokenpunctuation">'</span><span class="systranseg">s</span><span class="systrantokenpunctuation">,</span><span class="systranseg"> the cré </span><span class="systrantokenword">the</span><span class="systranseg"> nom </span><span class="systrantokenword">de</span><span class="systranseg"> </span><span class="systrantokenword">nom</span><span class="systrantokenpunctuation">,</span> <br />
<span class="systrantokenword">The</span><span class="systranseg"> </span><span class="systrantokenword">plague</span><span class="systranseg">, and pouh</span><span class="systrantokenpunctuation">,</span><span class="systranseg"> diantre, </span><span class="systrantokenword">fichtre</span><span class="systranseg"> and </span><span class="systrantokenword">foutre</span><span class="systrantokenpunctuation">,</span>
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<span class="systrantokenword">All</span><span class="systranseg"> the Bon Dieu</span><span class="systrantokenpunctuation">,</span><br />
<span class="systrantokenword">All</span><span class="systranseg"> </span><span class="systrantokenword">the</span><span class="systranseg"> vertudieux</span><span class="systrantokenpunctuation">,</span> <br />
<span class="systrantokenword">Tonnerr</span><span class="systrantokenpunctuation">'</span><span class="systranseg"> </span><span class="systrantokenword">de</span><span class="systranseg"> Brest and saperlipopette</span><span class="systrantokenpunctuation">,</span> <br />
<span class="systrantokenword">just as</span><span class="systrantokenpunctuation">,</span><span class="systranseg"> pardieu</span><span class="systrantokenpunctuation">,</span><span class="systranseg"> with </span><span class="systrantokenword">the</span><span class="systranseg"> jarnidieux </span><br />
<span class="systrantokenword">And</span><span class="systranseg"> </span><span class="systrantokenword">the</span><span class="systranseg"> pasquedieux</span><span class="systrantokenpunctuation">.</span><br />
<span class="systrantokenword">What a</span><span class="systranseg"> </span><span class="systrantokenword">shame</span><span class="systranseg">!</span> <span class="systranseg">The truck drivers</span><br />
<span class="systrantokenword">Have</span><span class="systranseg"> </span><span class="systrantokenword">now</span><span class="systranseg"> cleaned up their
language</span><span class="systrantokenpunctuation">!</span> <br />
<span class="systrantokenword">And the fishwives</span><br />
<span class="systrantokenword">And</span><span class="systranseg"> </span><span class="systrantokenword">harshest</span><span class="systranseg"> shrews</span> <br />
<span class="systrantokenword">Now don’t speak without thinking!</span> <br />
<span class="systrantokenword">The old obscene </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>catechism<br />
<span class="systranseg">Is scarce used now by </span><span class="systrantokenword">the</span><span class="systranseg"> </span><span class="systrantokenword">hussars</span><span class="systranseg"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span class="systrantokenword"><span style="color: #555555; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">They</span></span><span class="systranseg">’ve had their day</span><span class="systrantokenpunctuation"><span style="color: #555555; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">,</span></span><span class="systranseg"><span style="color: #555555; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> so rest in peace</span></span><span class="systrantokenpunctuation"><span style="color: #555555; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">,</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: #555555; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <br />
<span class="systrantokenword">The merry </span><span class="systranseg">oaths
of times gone by.</span></span><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Swearwords<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Lines<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Type of
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">morbleu,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">10<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Mort de Dieu<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Swearing on the body of Christ - but minced words</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">ventrebleu,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">10<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Ventre de dieu<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Swearing on the belly of Christ cut open on the cross- but minced
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">cornegidouille,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">11<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">An oath invented for the surrealist play « Ubu Roi » of
1896</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">sacrebleu<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">11<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Sacré Dieu<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Swearing on the sacred God - but minced word.</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">parbleu<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">12<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Par Dieu<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Swearing on God - but minced word.</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">jarnibleu<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">12<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Je renie Dieu<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Denying God-total blasphemy !<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>-but minced words</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">palsambleu</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">13</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Par le sang de Dieu<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Swearing on the blood Christ shed on the cross - but minced words</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">cristi,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">14</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Christ</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Swearing on Christ’s name<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">ventre saint-gris<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">14<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Ventre de dieu<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Swearing on the belly of Christ – but a substitute noun</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">ma barbe<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">15<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Mon Dieu<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Swearing on God but substitute noun</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">nom d'une pipe<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">15<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Nom de dieu<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Swearing on God’s name, but substitute noun</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">pardi<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">16<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Par Dieu<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Swearing on God - but minced word.</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">sapristi<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">16<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Sacré Christ<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Swearing on the sacred Christ - but minced word.</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">sacristi,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">17<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Sacré Christ<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Swearing on the sacred Christ - but minced word.</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">jarnicoton<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">18<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Je renie Dieu<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Denying God-total blasphemy !<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But substitute noun</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">scrogneugneu<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">19<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Nom de Dieu<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Swearing on God’s name but minced words</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">bigre<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">19<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">bugger<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;">Obscenity </span>- but
minced word.<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">bougre<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">19<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">bugger<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Obscenity<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">saperlotte<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">20<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Sacred God<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Swearing on God but substitute noun</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Cré nom de nom<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">20<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Sacred Name of God<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Minced words and substitute noun</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">peste<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">21<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The Plague </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Swearing on the horrific plagues of medieval Europe</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">pouah<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">21<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Expression of disgust as in English</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">diantre<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">21<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Devil<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Swearing on the Devil - but minced word.</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">fichtre<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">21<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">F*ck (but less strong in French)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Obscenity</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">foutre<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">21<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">F*ck (but less strong in French</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Obscenity</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Bon Dieu<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">22<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The Good Lord<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Swearing on God’s goodness<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">vertudieu<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">23<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Innocent God<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Swearing on God’s innocence<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">saperlipopette<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">24<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Sacred God<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Swearing on God but substitute noun</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Tonnerre de Brest<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">24<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Tonnerre de Dieu<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Swearing on God’s thunder- but substitute noun</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">pardieu<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">25<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Swearing on God </span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">jarnidieu<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">25<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Je nie Dieu<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Denying God- total blasphemy - but minced word.</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Pasquedieu<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">25<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Par le sang de Dieu<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Swearing on the blood Christ shed on the cross - but minced words</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">SOME VOCAB POINTS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">a)La ronde = a dance performed in a circle, a square dance, a folk dance .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought of using the word “rondo” but that is “rondeau” in French.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">b)De bon aloi = honest,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>respectable,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>sound<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">c)Le franc-parler = outspokenness, speaking your mind.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">d)Par-là …. par-ci = here and there, all over the place<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span class="commentaire">e)Frapper à bras raccourcis= to lay into to some-one with your fists. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The French argue among themselves the significance of shortened arms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps the most plausible explanation<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is that it means: with shortened sleeves, rolled up for the fight.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: calibri;">f)Défiler - pass by – flash by</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">G)Les charretiers <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>= <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>carters<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">h)Châtié = polished, refined<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">i)Les harengères<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>= the fishwives- a pejorative description as in English<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">j)Mégère =<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a cantankerous, evil tempered woman, a shrew.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> k)</span>Poissard<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>= vulgar,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>coarse<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">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><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">m)De profundis is a phrase for a requiem.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">SORTING OUT
THE RIGHTS AND WRONGS OF SWEARING<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>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.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By calling on our Gods, we
are conforming to normal religious practice, Christians do this in prayer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, to do this while swearing shows
total disrespect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All well brought-up
children in Christian countries know that swearing is wrong and are frequently
admonished to wash their mouths out after transgressing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>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 style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>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:<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">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:<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">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……<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Deu 28:28 The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and
astonishment of heart"</span></span></i></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">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><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Swearing was therefore strongly and sometimes
cruelly suppressed under the blasphemy laws. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">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="mso-ansi-language: EN;">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.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">In spite of
the countermeasures, swearing could not be wiped out. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In French these oaths are called
« blasphèmes dérivés » or « blasphèmes euphémistiques”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brassens’ song gives us a long list.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Coton, to substitute his own name. As a
result the sterilised oath “jarnicoton” came into use –line 18 in Brassens’
song.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">In this song
Brassens is regretting the loss in our times of the wealth of colourful oaths
used for centuries past.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The famous
English writer, Robert Graves (1895- 1985) in his little book “Lars Porsena or
the future of swearing (1929)” expresses the same sentiment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>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 style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“…. 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.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></b>He
speaks admiringly (page 27) of those who swore “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">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. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The gradual
onset of democracy in Europe saw the weakening of traditional prohibitions
imposed by princes and priests.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>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 style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those who felt the need to shock and express
social revolt from then on found greater power <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in swearwords that broke the sexual taboos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>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.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Brassens
mentions only four obscene words (and mild ones at that) “bougre” and “bigre”
on line on line 19, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“fichtre” and
“foutre” on line 21.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">I became
aware of the word “foutre” immediately after I arrived in Arras to take up a
post of English assistant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
incorporated the verb with all its variants into my active vocabulary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>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.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He cites the paucity of the invective of the
modern hussar compared with that of hussars in previous centuries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Robert Graves has once again exactly the same
opinion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Graves had been an army officer
during the First World War (His memoirs:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Goodbye to all that” are widely recognized as a masterpiece).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He despaired of the unimaginative monotony in
the swearing reported when soldiers appeared before him charged with
insubordination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We read on page 41 of
Graves’s book:<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">"Orderly-room charges of
obscene and blasphemous language show a distressing sameness:<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">“Sir, the accused
called me a f*cking c*nt” or<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">“Sir, the accused
called me a f*cking prick.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Both
Brassens and Graves believe that swearing has had its day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those of us who lived with it during our
military service,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>blasting loud and long
in our ears, would not regret its passing. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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David Yendleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09171810352548143316noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068332053655053423.post-87626745556160101002013-05-16T12:22:00.000+01:002017-04-18T00:02:57.257+01:00Le mauvais sujet repenti-sad story showing society's inconsistent and hypocritical attitudes to the sex trade<br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">This poem is a morality tale- or perhaps more aptly an
immorality tale- about prostitution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
title suggests the traditional, inspiring story of the sinner who sees the
light – the story of the bad character who repented.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However Brassens’ title is ironical.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The narrator of the poem was indeed by common judgment a bad
character.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was a pimp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In contemporary Britain, it is politically
correct to be kinder to prostitutes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They are “sex workers”, but their pimps are still the lowest of the low.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However the moral issues here are shown to be
complex.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the man’s previous life was
despicable, his act of repentance was even more despicable. He abandoned the
woman with whom he had lived in a passionate relationship- although by mutual
agreement shared with many others- , who had made his fortune and he left her
to a grim fate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">His personal behaviour was certainly vile, but we note that he and his
partner provided a service to clients who were pharmacists, church officials, civil servants and
serving police officers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are aware
that her pitch was close to the Chamber of Deputies. Brassens, the anarchist
who rejected all outside interference in personal choice is pointing to the
absurd contradictions in legislation which aims to prevent payment for sex.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Le mauvais sujet repenti<o:p></o:p></span></span></b><br />
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Elle avait la taill' faite
au tour,(1)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Les hanches pleines,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Et chassait l' mâle aux
alentours<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">De La Mad’leine...(2)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">À sa façon d' me dir' :
"Mon rat,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Est-c' que j' te tente
?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Je vis que j'avais affaire à<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Un' débutante...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">L' avait l' don, c'est vrai,
j'en conviens,</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">L'avait l' génie<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Mais sans technique, un don
n'est rien<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Qu'un' sal' manie...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Certes, on ne se fait pas
putain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Comme on s' fait nonne,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">C'est du moins c' qu'on
prêche, en latin,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">À la Sorbonne...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Me sentant rempli de pitié</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Pour la donzelle,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">J' lui enseignai, de son
métier,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Les p'tit's ficelles...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">J' lui enseignai l' moyen d'
bientôt<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Faire fortune,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">En bougeant l'endroit où le
dos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">R'ssemble à la lune...(3)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Car, dans l'art de fair' le
trottoir,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Je le confesse,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Le difficile est d' bien
savoir<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Jouer des fesses...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">On n' tortill' pas son
popotin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">D' la mêm' manière,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Pour un droguiste, un
sacristain,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Un fonctionnaire...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Rapidement instruite par</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Mes bons offices,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Elle m'investit d'une part<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">D' ses bénéfices...(4)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">On s'aida mutuellement,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Comm' dit l' poète,(5)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Ell' était l' corps,
naturell'ment,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Puis moi la tête...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Un soir, à la suite de</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Manoeuvres douteuses,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Ell' tomba victim' d'une<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Maladie honteuse...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Lors, en tout bien, toute
amitié,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">En fille probe,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Elle me passa la moitié<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">De ses microbes...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Après des injections aiguës</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">D'antiseptique,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">J'abandonnai l' métier d'
cocu<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Systématique...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Elle eut beau pousser des
sanglots,</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Braire à tue-tête,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Comme je n'étais qu'un
salaud,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">J' me fis honnête...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Sitôt privé' de ma tutelle,</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Ma pauvre amie<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Courut essuyer du bordel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Les infamies...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Paraît qu'ell' s' vend même
à des flics,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Quell' décadence !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Y'a plus d' moralité
publiqu'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Dans notre France...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">She had a most shapely figure<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Full in the hips,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">And hunted for males, roundabout<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">The Madeleine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">From her way of saying : « Darling,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">D’you fancy me ? »<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I saw that I was dealing with<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">A raw beginner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">She’d the gift, it’s true, I quite agree,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">She'd the genius,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">But without technique a gift’s no more<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Than a nasty habit…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">It’s true you don’t become a whore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Like you do a’nun<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">That’s at least what they preach, in Latin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">At the Sorbonne…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Feeling overwhelmed with pity<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">For the damsel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I taught her the little secrets<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Of her profession<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I taught her the method to soon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Make her fortune<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">By swaying the place where the back<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Looks very like the moon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">For, in the art of street walking,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I must confess<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">What’s hard is to rightly know how to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Make play with the bum…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">You do not wiggle your bottom<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the same manner<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">For a chemist, a church warden<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">A civil servant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Rapidly instructed by<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">My good offices<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">She invested me with a share<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Of her profits<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">We helped each other mutu’lly<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">As the poet says.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">She was the body, natur’lly<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Then me the head.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">One night following some<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Suspect carryings on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">She fell the victim of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">A shameful illness…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Then, justly, out of true friendship<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">A forthright girl,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">She passed on to me a half<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Of her microbes ……<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">After sev’ral sharp injections<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Of antiseptic<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I gave up the career of cuckold<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Systematic......<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In vain was all her deep sighing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Howling at full blast,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">As I was nothing but a swine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I turned honest man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Deprived of me as her guardian,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">My poor girl friend<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Went straight to submit to the shame<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Of the brothel …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Seems she’s even sold to coppers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">What decadence !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">There’s no public morality now<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In this France of ours……<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">1953 - Les amoureux des bancs publics<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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is the lathe and so a part of the body that is « fait au tour » is
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area around the historic building of the Madeleine has long been regarded as a
hunting ground for prostitutes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As their
clientele in this area was from a better class, the women would be a better
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great admirer of a rounded female bottom and uses the moon analogy
frequently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See <a href="http://brassenswithenglish.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/venus-callipyge-this-song-was-inspired.html" target="_blank">Vénus Callipyge</a></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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squalid arrangement <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>being presented as a
standard business contract.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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with his book of La Fontaine’s fables.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In La Fontaine’s « L’Aveugle et le Paralytique », there are
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">THANKS FOR A CONTRIBUTION TO THIS TRANSLATION</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I am grateful to a French gentleman called Arthur for three amendments he has given me that I have incorporated now in this translation. It's a great help. Many thanks. David Y.<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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David Yendleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09171810352548143316noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068332053655053423.post-84284719426598496272013-04-25T02:00:00.001+01:002017-04-18T00:09:34.520+01:00La marche nuptiale -The pathos of the wedding procession for Brassens' parents<br />
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is a very touching, very personal song, because Brassens is describing the
wedding day of his parents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although the
title of the song is “Wedding March” and Brassens speaks of the day as a memory
that he will never forget, the sombre music of the song is more suitable for a
“marche funèbre”-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a funeral march.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is appropriate because their wedding
appears to have had a prevailing mood of pathos, marked by embarrassment,
disappointment and deep emotional distress on the part of the bride.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The families of bride and groom were so poor
that their bridal carriage, to the amazement of the onlookers was an ox cart
propelled by the wedding guests.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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is an unconventional wedding, because the couple have already been together for
a long time and their son is accompanying them with music on his harmonica.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are told that they are on the way to the
Town Hall and so they would seem to be on their way to a civil ceremony, not a
church marriage. The crisis for the bride comes, when heaven manifests its
disapproval by striking the procession with a mighty wind and soaking the
participants with a heavy downpour of rain. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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account in the song does not tally with Brassens’ biography and this question
will be discussed in the following translation notes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><strong>Barbara</strong> sings this song with a lot of verve and feeling.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Marriages
for love, marriages <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for
money<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p>I
have seen all sorts of people getting married :<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p>Folk
of humble stock and great figures in the land,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p>Some calling themselves coiffeurs, some</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> self-styled lawyers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p>Even
if I should live <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>until
the end of time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I will always treasure </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the memory</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p>Of
the poor wedding day my father and mother<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p>Went
to get themselves wed before Monsieur the Mayor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was, if</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> full truth need
be told, in an ox cart</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p>With our friends pulling it, and relatives pushing,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p>That
the long-time lovers rode to their nuptials<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p>After a long term love,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span> a long
time engagement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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marriage cortège most unconventional,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p>The
crowd thronged around us,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span> eyes
wide with amazement<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p>We
were being looked on by people not involved <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p>Who
hadn’t ever seen a wedding in this style<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here
comes the wind, which blows away, oh the heartbreak ! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p>The
hats of my father and children in the choir.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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there’s the rain which falls, dishing out big rain-drops <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p>As
if to stop the wedding, at all cost.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p>As
she cradled<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span> like a doll
her big bunch of flowers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p>I
to console her, I, with all my proud contempt<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p>On
my harmonica, played great organ pieces<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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all the groomsmen, shaking their fists at the clouds</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p>Were
shouting « By Jupiter, the wedding goes on !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p>Though
by humans decried, by the gods obstructed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The wedding <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>continues and so long live the bride !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Even
if I should live <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>until
the end of time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p>I will always treasure the
memory<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p>Of
the poor wedding day my father and mother<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p>Went
to get themselves wed before Monsieur the Mayor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">devant Monsieur le Maire</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">- I thought of putting « Before his Worship the
Mayor » as that is the Mayor’s (odd) title in Britain, but that would have
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">firent leurs épousailles</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> – Brassens says that his parents celebrated their
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Après long temps d'amour, long temps de fiançailles</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> – According to the story in the song, the parents had
been in love for a long time and had had a long engagement. Obviously
they must have been living in sin, to use the English terminology of those
days, and she had given birth to the son who was playing the harmonica and
telling the story. In fact, Georges Brassens mother, Elvira
Dagrossa, who came from an Italian family, had been married previously and had
had a daughter, Simone, in 1912. Her husband had been called up
during the 1914- 1918 war and he had been killed in 1919. As she
married Jean-Louis Brassens in 1920 after having been a widow for only one
year, it is difficult to see how they could have been lovers and engaged
for a long time. As Georges Brassens was born, their legitimate son
in 1921, it was impossible for him to have been at his parents’ wedding –except
in the womb perhaps !<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Je n'oublierai jamais la mariée en pleurs</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">- It is understandable that this would have been a
very emotional day for Elvira. Just a year ago, she had been married to a
different man, the father of her nine year old daughter – until the ominous
telegram was delivered at her house. As a devout Catholic, she would
be afraid of the wrath of God and the anger of the skies would seem to confirm
this. She was getting married in a civil ceremony to a man who had
little respect for her religion and her Catholic education would have
convinced her that she was jeopardising her immortal soul. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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David Yendleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09171810352548143316noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068332053655053423.post-8807182533160476582013-04-08T23:19:00.000+01:002016-06-06T19:50:04.681+01:00Celui Qui A Mal Tourné - reassuring tale of people at their worst but also at their best<br />
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find this a touching poem and very personal to Brassens, as the experiences and
emotions of the man in the story closely parallel those of Brassens.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brassens never found himself accused of murder
of course, but in his youth, Brassens had become involved in unworthy criminality,
which diminished his self-respect and gave him a great sense of guilt. He too
had been condemned by the harsh verdict of the courts, which made no allowances.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had been painfully conscious of the
disgust and anger he had aroused in the ordinary people around him and had gone
into long exile. Even when he became a successful performer, his self-image was
of an outsider estranged from the society of “respectable” people - to him they were "Les croquants and les croquantes".<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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the audiences who thronged to listen to him were in the majority from this “respectable”
class and, who knows, might have included some members who were over-weight,
over- wealthy and devoted to sensual pleasure, like the ageing fun seeker, whom
the man in the story had accidentally snuffed out. Nevertheless, the audiences
reacted to the social outsider on the stage with appreciation, sympathy and
love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It
is possible therefore that the enlightenment of the man seen in the last verse
of the song describes Brassens' own realisation in the closing years of his
career.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One can imagine that on some
nights at the end of his performances, when stage-fright habitually tore his nerves
to shreds, Brassens returned to the privacy of his dressing room and overwhelmed
by the warmth of his reception, drowned by the invasive sense of human kindness,
sank to the floor and wept uncontrollably.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The final two lines of the song are the most important in the song.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Il y avait des temps et des temps</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Qu'je n'm'étais pas servi d'mes dents,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Qu'je n' mettais plus d'vin dans mon eau (1)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ni de charbon dans mon fourneau.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tous les croque-morts, silencieux,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Me dévoraient déjà des yeux:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ma dernière heure allait sonner</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">C'est alors que j'ai mal tourné(2)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">J'estourbis(3) en un tournemain(4),</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">En un coup de bûche(5) excessif,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Un noctambule(6) en or massif.(7)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Les chats fourrés,(8) quand ils l'ont su</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">M'ont posé la patte dessus</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pour m'envoyer à la Santé(9)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Me refaire une honnêteté.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Machin, Chose, Un tel, Une telle,(10)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Furent d'avis que j'aurais dû</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">En bonn' justice être pendu.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">À la lanterne(11)! et sur-le-champ!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Au bout d'un siècle, on m'a jeté</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">À la porte de la Santé.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Comme je suis sentimental,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Je retourne au quartier natal,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Baissant le nez, rasant les murs,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mal à l'aise sur mes fémurs,(14)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Se détourner de mon chemin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Y' en a un qui m'a dit: " Salut !</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Y' en a un qui m'a demandé</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lors, j'ai vu qu'il restait encor</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Et j'ai pleuré, le cul par terre,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Toutes les larmes de mon corps(15).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1957 - Je me suis fait tout petit,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since I’d had aught to bite into Since I’d put wine in my water</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Were already eyeing me up</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That was when I went badly wrong.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To remake ‘n honest man of me.</span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->1)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Qu'je n' mettais plus d'vin dans mon eau – The
normal practice of putting water in wine is reversed. To avoid sentiment, the
poet does not want to tell us too directly that the man was desperately short
of food and shelter.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span lang="FR">C'est
alors que j'ai mal tourné. </span>There is probably some irony here,
as, the state that the was in, makes clear that things had gone badly wrong for
him long before.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->J'estourbis = I killed. The poet says
he does not wish to beat about the bush but he uses a less usual verb for “to
kill.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]-->4)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->en un tournemain = in an instant/ in the
twinkling of an eye/. Perhaps in this
case a mad,, impulsive action is implied.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->un coup de bûche = a blow with a lump of wood.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“judges”, descriptive of their robes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->La Santé – The proper noun denotes the Prison in
the 13th arrondissement of Paris. The common noun of course
means “health” and this permits puns in the poem.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Machin, Chose, Un tel, Une telle – In English,
when we want to quote some-one whose name we forget , we say « Thingummy
says…. ». In French they say « Machin dit….. » or
they could use the other devices on this line.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->À la lanterne
Wikipedia gives this full explanation : Lanterne is a French word designating a
lantern or lamp post. The word, or the slogan "À la lanterne!" gained
special meaning and status in Paris and France during the early phase of the
French Revolution, from the summer of 1789. Lamp posts served as an instrument
to mobs to perform extemporised lynchings and executions in the streets of
Paris during the revolution when the people of Paris occasionally hanged
officials and aristocrats from the lamp posts. The English equivalent would be
"String Them Up!" or "Hang 'Em High!<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->(faire) en tout bien tout honneur means
something done with honourable intent and without any reservations<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span lang="FR">En
guise de porte-bonheur. </span>There is an old superstition that a piece of
hangman’s rope already used in an execution, brings good luck.<o:p></o:p></div>
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les larmes de mon corps means to cry my eyes out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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David Yendleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09171810352548143316noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068332053655053423.post-28178659255603547592013-02-22T16:28:00.001+00:002015-02-25T20:10:46.814+00:00La Marine - Paul Fort's poem of a sailor's compressed love lifeBrassens sings this famous poem by Paul Fort. They are the frank words of a sailor telling how a navy career obliges sailors to cram all their love life into the short interludes of shore leave. Typically for Paul Fort, love wins the day. His view of human love was coloured by his deep, lifelong love of his wife, which he shows in his poem: <br />
"<a href="http://dbarf.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/si-le-bon-dieu-avait-voulu-paul-forts.html">Si le bon dieu avait voulu</a>".<br />
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On les r'trouve en raccourci,</div>
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Dans nos p'tits amours d'un jour,</div>
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Toutes les joies, tous les soucis</div>
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Des amours qui dur'nt toujours!</div>
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C'est là l'sort de la marine</div>
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On accoste. Vite! un bec</div>
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Pour nos baisers, l'corps avec.</div>
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Il y a tout, en raccourci,</div>
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Des grands amours dans nos p'tits.</div>
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Pondus comm' des oeufs, tout chauds.</div>
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Tout c'qu'on fait dans un seul jour!</div>
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Plus d'trois fois, dans un seul jour, </div>
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Y' a dans la chambre une odeur</div>
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Ça vous met la joie au cœur,</div>
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On n'est pas là pour causer</div>
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On accoste. Mais on devine</div>
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On aura beau s'dépécher,</div>
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Toutes les joies, tous les soucis</div>
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Des amours qui dur'nt toujours!</div>
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On les r'trouve en raccourci,</div>
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They are found in abridged form,</div>
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All the joys, all the worries</div>
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Of loves th’t go on uncurtailed!</div>
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That’s the fate th’navy gives us</div>
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We land back home. Quick! One peck</div>
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And the joys and the sulking,</div>
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Fallings out and making up,</div>
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Big love stories in our small.</div>
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We laughed, we exchanged kisses</div>
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Lots of smooching in the hair.</div>
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Nestled like eggs- nice and warm.</div>
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All that you do in one day!</div>
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And how you spin out the time!</div>
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More than three times in one day</div>
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Content, not content, content.</div>
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There’s a scent in the bedroom</div>
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Of tender love and coal tar</div>
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It puts joy into your heart</div>
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Some pain also, and that’s right.</div>
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You are not there for the chat</div>
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But you think, while making love</div>
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You think that next day will dawn</div>
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An’that it’s a calamity.</div>
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That’s the fate th’navy gives us</div>
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And our little loved-ones too.</div>
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We land home. But we can guess</div>
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That it will not be heaven.</div>
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There’s no point in rushing about </div>
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Trying, lord! to hold back time,</div>
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And stuff it full with our sins. </div>
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That cannot be so; and yet....</div>
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All the joys, all the worries</div>
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Of loves th’t go on uncurtailed!</div>
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They are found in abridged form,</div>
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In our little one day love-ins.</div>
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<br />David Yendleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09171810352548143316noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068332053655053423.post-36703341542674213972013-01-31T05:19:00.002+00:002016-04-12T19:31:43.404+01:00La Fessée -A playful spanking in inappropriate circumstances<br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">This is an erotic song which I have previously passed over,
but which has a contemporary topicality at a time when the top-selling novel,
“Fifty Shades of Grey” also has a much discussed spanking scene. I don’t
imagine though that the setting of the couple’s encounter in E. L. James’ book
is a Chapel of Rest, with the lady’s husband’s corpse alongside. Brassens is dealing once again with his repeated theme of death and his determination not to let his
own eventual death or any actual death suck the life out from the several decades
of living that are granted us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One
weapon in his counter attack is the free enjoyment of human sexuality, which is illustrated in
this song. Here it is presented sometimes openly but more often conveyed
through teasing innuendo and suggestion so that the song is as sensual as the audience makes it. The censor made the right (or wrong) interpretation and the song was banned. It is good to hear the audience laughter on this recording and to know Brassens' song was generally accepted in its true spirit</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">La fessée<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">La veuve
et l'orphelin, quoi de plus émouvant ?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Un vieux
copain d'école étant mort sans enfants,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Abandonnant
au monde une épouse épatante,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">J'allai
rendre visite à la désespérée.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Et puis,
ne sachant plus où finir ma soirée,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Je lui
tins compagnie dans la chapelle ardente.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Pour
endiguer ses pleurs, pour apaiser ses maux,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Je me mis
à blaguer, à sortir des bons mots,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Tous les
moyens sont bons au médecin de l'âme...</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Bientôt,
par la vertu de quelques facéties,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">La veuve
se tenait les côtes, Dieu merci !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ainsi que
des bossus, tous deux nous rigolâmes.</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Ma pipe
dépassait un peu de mon veston.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Aimable,
elle m'encouragea : "Bourrez-la donc,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Qu'aucun
impératif moral ne vous arrête,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Si mon
pauvre mari détestait le tabac,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Maintenant
la fumée ne le dérange pas !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Mais où
diantre ai-je mis mon porte-cigarettes ?"(1)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">À minuit,
d'une voix douce de séraphin,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Elle me
demanda si je n'avais pas faim.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">"Ça
le ferait-il revenir, ajouta-t-elle,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">De
pousser la piété jusqu'à l'inanition</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Que
diriez-vous d'une frugale collation ?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Et nous
fîmes un petit souper aux chandelles(2).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">"Regardez
s'il est beau ! Dirait-on point qu'il dort ?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Ce n'est
certes pas lui qui me donnerait tort<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">De noyer
mon chagrin dans un flot de champagne."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Quand
nous eûmes vidé le deuxième magnum,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">La veuve
était émue, nom d'un petit bonhomme!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Et son
esprit se mit à battre la campagne...</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">"Mon
dieu, ce que c'est tout de même que de nous !"(3)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Soupira-t-elle,
en s'asseyant sur mes genoux.</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Et puis,
ayant collé sa lèvre sur ma lèvre,</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">"Me
voilà rassurée, fit-elle, j'avais peur</span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Que, sous
votre moustache en tablier d' sapeur,(4)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Vous ne
cachiez coquettement un bec-de-lièvre..."<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;"><br /></span>
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Un
tablier d' sapeur, ma moustache, pensez !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Cette
comparaison méritait la fessée.</div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Retroussant
l'insolente avec nulle tendresse,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Conscient
d'accomplir, somme toute, un devoir,</div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Mais en
fermant les yeux pour ne pas trop en voir</span><br />
Paf !
J'abattis sur elle une main vengeresse !<br />
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"Aïe
! Vous m'avez fêlé le postérieur en deux !"</div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Se
plaignit-elle, et je baissai le front, piteux,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Craignant
avoir frappé de façon trop brutale.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Mais
j'appris par la suite, et j'en fus bien content,</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Que cet
état de chos's durait depuis longtemps :<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Menteuse
! La fêlure était congénitale.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Quand je
levai la main pour la deuxième fois,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Le coeur
n'y était plus, j'avais perdu la foi,</span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Surtout
qu'elle s'était enquise, la bougresse :<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">"Avez-vous
remarqué que j'avais un beau cul ?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Et ma
main vengeresse est retombée, vaincue,</div>
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Et le
troisième coup ne fut qu'une caresse...</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">"Avez-vous
remarqué que j'avais un beau cul ?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
Et ma
main vengeresse est retombée, vaincue,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Et le
troisième coup ne fut qu'une caresse...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The widow and the orphan, what is more moving ?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">An old mate from school having died
without children<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Leaving behind to the world a stunning
wife<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I went round to visit the lady in
despair<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And then not knowing where to finish
the evening<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I kept her company in the chapel of
rest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In order to staunch her tears and to
soothe her woes</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I started to make jokes, to attempt a
little wit,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Every method is right for doctors of
the soul…….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Soon, by virtue of these facetious
remarks<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The widow was splitting her sides. </span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Thank God !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The two of us were rolling around with
laughter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">My pipe was poking a bit from my jacket<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Kindly, she encouraged me: Stuff it
full then.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Let no moral imperative stand in your way</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">If my poor husband detested tobacco<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">At present our smoking does not
disturb him<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">But where the heck have I put my
cigarette case”.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">At midnight in a soft angelic voice</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">She asked me if I wasn’t feeling
hungry<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">"Would that bring him back again, she
added<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">To push piety until we drop with
hunger<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What would you say to a frugal
collation?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And we shared a little supper by
candlelight<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">"Look how handsome he is!</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Would’nt
y’say he’s sleeping?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">He’s certainly not the one to tell me
that I’m wrong<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">To drown my sorrows with a good swig
of champagne."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">When we had emptied the second magnum<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The widow was emotional, the hell she
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Her mind began to run away with her a
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">"My God, what is there, that we
mortals have in store!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">She softly sighed, while sitting down
upon my lap<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And then having stuck her lips </span><span style="font-size: 16px;">tightly</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> onto mine</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">"There, my mind’s put at rest," she
said, “I’d been afraid<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">That beneath your moustache so like a lady’s muff <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Was a hare lip you were
self-consciously hiding….”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Like a lady’s muff, my moustache, just
imagine!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">That comparison well deserved a
spanking<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Hoisting the cheeky girl’s skirts not
at all gently,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Conscious of performing what was just
a duty<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">But while closing my eyes lest I
should see too much.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Slap ! I brought down on her an avenging
hand .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">"Ouch ! You have just split my
posterior in two!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">She complained and I lowered my eyes
in pity ,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Fearing to have struck her in a too
brutal way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">But I found out after, to my
satisfaction<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">That this state of things dated back quite a long time:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">She had told a lie! The split had been
there from birth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And when I lifted my hand for the
second time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">My heart was no longer in it. I’d lost
the faith<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Especially as she had enquired, the
rascal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">« Have you noticed that I had a
beautiful bum? »<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And my avenging hand fell back down
defeated<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And the third blow was nothing more
than a caress.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">« Have you noticed that I had a
beautiful bum? »<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And my avenging hand fell back down
defeated<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And the third blow was nothing more
than a caress.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(1)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12pt;">There is a lot of suggestive language in this verse – and the rest of the
poem, which a translator should avoid making explicit.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(2)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">nous fîmes un petit
souper aux chandelles(2). – An unsentimental use of funeral candles</span><br />
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(3)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">ce que c'est tout de même que de nous !" – In
her cups, the widow makes a declamation about human mortality. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This is a
famous expression used by Archbishop Bossuet (1627- 1704) in a funeral
oration, (Bossuet is regarded as one of
the great orators of all time).
Bossuet’s enigmatic statement made beside a dead body is seen to express
how little our lives have to offer.
Brassens’ use would appear to be ironic, coming from a tipsy young lady
intent on making love – although, admittedly, she, like Bossuet was speaking
the words beside a dead body.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Un tablier d'
sapeur – In the 19th century, firemen in some parts of France wore black
leather aprons for protection. However
the expression has a vulgar usage for female pubic hair.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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David Yendleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09171810352548143316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068332053655053423.post-24149156633160370022013-01-22T19:12:00.000+00:002017-05-04T22:06:35.552+01:00La guerre de 14- 18 - The nonsense of this war- also Michael Flanders' adaptation<br />
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satirises the conventional teaching of history, which confines itself largely
to the amoral listing of successive wars and attributes national glory to the
slaughter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this poem a new military recruit
enthusiastically lists his favourite wars, putting at the top the 1914- 1918 War, which was, of course, the greatest human slaughterhouse in history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Depuis que l'homme écrit l'Histoire,</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="FR" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt;">Depuis qu'il bataille à
coeur joie</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="FR" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt;">Entre mille et un' guerr's
notoires,</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="FR" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt;">Si j'étais t'nu de faire un
choix,</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="FR" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt;">À l'encontre du vieil
Homère,(2)</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="FR" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt;">Je déclarerais tout de suite
:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt;">"Moi, mon colon, cell'
que j' préfère,</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="FR" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt;">C'est la guerr' de
quatorz'-dix-huit !"</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
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<span lang="FR" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Est-ce à dire que je méprise</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="FR" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Les nobles guerres de jadis,</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="FR" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Que je m' soucie comm' d'un'
cerise</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="FR" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">De celle de soixante-dix
? (3)</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="FR" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Au contraire, je la révère</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="FR" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Et lui donne un satisfecit</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="FR" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Mais, mon colon, cell' que
j' préfère,</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="FR" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">C'est la guerr' de
quatorz'-dix-huit !</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
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<span lang="FR" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Je sais que les guerriers de
Sparte</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="FR" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Plantaient pas leurs épées
dans l'eau,(4)</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="FR" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Que les grognards de
Bonaparte (5)</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="FR" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Tiraient pas leur poudre aux
moineaux..</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="FR" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Leurs faits d'armes sont
légendaires,</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="FR" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Au garde-à-vous, j' les
félicite,</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="FR" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Mais, mon colon, cell' que
j' préfère,</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="FR" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">C'est la guerr' de
quatorz'-dix-huit !</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Bien sûr, celle de l'an quarante (6)</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="FR" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt;">Ne m'a pas tout à fait déçu,</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="FR" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt;">Elle fut longue et
massacrante</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="FR" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt;">Et je ne crache pas
dessus,(7)</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="FR" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt;">Mais à mon sens, ell' ne
vaut guère</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="FR" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt;">Guèr' plus qu'un premier
accessit,</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="FR" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt;">"Moi, mon colon, cell'
que j' préfère,</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="FR" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt;">C'est la guerr' de
quatorz'-dix-huit !"</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
<br />
</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;">Mon but n'est pas de chercher noise</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="FR" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt;">Aux guérillas, non, fichtre
! non,</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="FR" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt;">Guerres saintes, guerres
sournoises,</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="FR" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt;">Qui n'osent pas dire leur
nom,(8),</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="FR" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt;">Chacune a quelque chos' pour
plaire</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="FR" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt;">Chacune a son petit mérite,</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="FR" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt;">Mais, mon colon, cell' que
j' préfère,</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="FR" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt;">C'est la guerr' de
quatorz'-dix-huit !</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
<br />
</span><span lang="FR" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt;">Du fond de son sac à
malices,</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="FR" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt;">Mars va sans doute, à l'occasion,</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="FR" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt;">En sortir une - un vrai
délice ! –</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span lang="FR" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt;">Qui me fera grosse
impression...</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt;">En attendant je persévère</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt;">À dir' que ma guerr' favorite,</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt;">Cell', mon colon, que j' voudrais faire,</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 12pt;">C'est la guerr' de quatorz'-dix-huit !</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Georges
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">1961 - Les trompettes de la renommée</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Since man’s been writing history <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Since he’s been gaily waging war <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">From ‘thousand and one wars of note,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">If I was forced to make a choice <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">At odds with what old Homer said,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">I would state firmly like a shot <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">« Me, colonel, the one I prefer <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Is the war of fourteen - eighteen! »<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Is that to say I look down on <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">The noble wars of times gone by <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">That I don’t care a fig about <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">The one of eighteen seventy <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">On the contr’ry I respect it <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">And award it a credit mark <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">« But colonel, the one I prefer <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Is the war of fourteen - eighteen! »<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">I know the warriors of Sparta <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Did not mess about with their swords, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Those of Napoleon’s Old Guard <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Didn’t fire their powder at sparrows <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Their war deeds are legendary <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Come to attention, I salute them, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">« But colonel, the one I prefer <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Is the war of fourteen - eighteen! »<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Sure that of the Revolution<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Was no total disappointment <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">It was long and full of massacres <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">And I treat it with no contempt <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">But to my mind it hardly rates <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Hardly more than a narrow fail, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">« Me, colonel, the one I prefer <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Is the war of fourteen - eighteen! » <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">My aim isn’t to pick a fight <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">With guerillas, no damn it ! no <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Holy wars and undergound wars </span><br />
<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Which do not dare
to speak their name <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Each one has got something to please <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Each one has its little merit <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">« But colonel, the one I prefer <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Is the war of fourteen - eighteen! »<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">From the depths of his bag of tricks <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Mars is going, without doubt, some day <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Pull out one such – a real delight! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Which will vastly impress me…. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Meanwhile I am carrying on <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Saying that my favourite war <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">The one, colonel, I’d like to fight <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">Is the war of fourteen - eighteen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">TRANSLATION NOTES</span></span></b></h3>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">1)</span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">La guerre de
14-18.- <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is unusual in English to
refer to the First World War in this way, but Flanders and Swann keep it in
their copy of Brassens' song.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See below.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></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 style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">2)</span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Homère –
Homer the great poet of Ancient Greece wrote the Illiad telling the story of
the last year of the Trojan War.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
lived around 750- 650 BC and so did not have as wide a choice of wars as the
young man in Brassens’ poem.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></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 style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">3)</span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">La Guerre de soixante-dix.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">In the War
of 1870, France suffered total defeat, outnumbered by the armies of Prussia and
Germany.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were however some
glorious moments for the French such as the charge of the Le Premier Cuirassier
at the battle of Reichshoffen. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></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 style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">4)</span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Les
guerriers de Sparte plantaient pas leurs épées dans l'eau = The expression<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>« donner des coups ‘épée dans
l’eau » means to exert oneself in order to achieve nothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Spartan warriors did the opposite and used their swords
to very bloody effect.<o:p></o:p></span></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 style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">5)</span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Les
grognards de Bonaparte – This was the name given to the soldiers of Napoleon’s
Vieille Garde, the utmost elite section of Napoleon’s elite Imperial Guard.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></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 style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">6)</span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Celle de l'an quarante<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here
Brassens is dealing with the bloody civil war of the French Revolution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this poem of dates,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brassens had reached the most famous date of
all- 1789.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, he preferred instead
to use “l’an quarante” , because the revolutionaries had a joke about the 40th
year of reign of Louis XVI.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the king
was 38 when they chopped his head off, the reason for this choice of number is
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nationalists and French forces between 1954 and 1962.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here Brassens was touching on a contemporary
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The War of 14-18<o:p></o:p> </span></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">War has had its
apologians, <br />
Ever since history began,<br />
From the times of the Greeks and Trojans, when they sang of arms and the man,<br />
But if you asked me to name the best, Sir,<br />
I'd tell you the one I mean,<br />
Head and shoulders above the rest, Sir, was the War of 14-18,<br />
Head and shoulders above the rest, Sir, stands the War of 14-18.<br />
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There were the wars against all those Louis,<br />
There were Caesar's wars in Gaul,<br />
There was Britain's war in Suez, which wasn't a war at all,<br />
There was the war of the Spanish succession,<br />
Many other wars in between,<br />
But they none of them made an impression like the war of 14-18,<br />
They didn't make the same impression as the war of 14-18.<br />
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The war of American independence, <br />
That was enjoyable, by and large,<br />
Watching England's free descendants busy defeating German “Garge”,(1)<br />
But the Boer war was a poor war, And I'm still inclined to lean,<br />
Though Sir, it possibly isn't your war like the war of 14-18,<br />
Though, it probably isn't your war, Sir, the war of 14-18.<br />
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There are certainly plenty of wars to choose from, you pick whichever one you
please,<br />
Like the one we've had all the news from liberating the Vietnamese,<br />
Or those wars for God and country, be it Korean or Philippine,<br />
Sir, if you'll pardon my effrontery, give me the war of 14-18,<br />
If you'll pardon my effrontery, Sir, the war of 14-18, <br />
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Every war has its own attraction from total war to border raid,<br />
Call it rebellion, police action,<br />
War of containment or crusade,<br />
I don't underrate the late war we see so often on the screen, <br />
But that wasn't the really great war like the war of 14-18,<br />
No, the late war wasn't the great war like the war of 14-18.<br />
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No doubt Mars, among his chattels, has got some really splendid war,<br />
Full of bigger and bloodier battles that we've ever seen before,<br />
But until that time comes, Sir, when that greater war comes on the scene,<br />
The one that I on the whole prefer, Sir, is the war of 14-18,<br />
Yes, the one that I still prefer, Sir, is the war of 14-18.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> 1) </span></o:p></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">German “Garge” -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are questions posted on the Internet
about the meaning of this phrase. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Michael
Flanders has distorted the name of the King of England, at the time of the
American war of Independence - George III.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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modern histories, we like to depict this war as Americans fighting British
imperialists, it was a war between British colonialist settlers in America
against their home government in England, led by a German King: George III from
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David Yendleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09171810352548143316noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068332053655053423.post-65577663756520306052012-11-23T23:49:00.001+00:002019-02-06T17:54:04.528+00:00Carla Bruni’s songs with English translation and vice versa<br />
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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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<b>INDEX OF CARLA BRUNI SONGS IN ORDER OF ALBUMS</b></h2>
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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;">2 <span lang="FR" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #e55600; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/raphael">Raphael</a></span></span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;"> - </span></span><br />
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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;">6)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span>"<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/ta-tienne" target="_blank">Ta tienne</a> “ - <span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Having had so many lovers, she now offers herself to to belong completely to just one</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">7)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span>"<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/peche-d-envie" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #e55600; text-decoration-line: none;">Péché d'envie</span></a></span>»- In each cryptic line Carla gives suggestions of things she has done, her enjoyments and her trials, her ecstasies and disappointments, loving and fighting, behaving sweetly and not so sweetly<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;">10)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span>"<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/je-suis-une-enfant" target="_blank">Je suis une enfant</a>» - In a sweet, simple song, she tells how a loving childhood creates a shell in which each individual child can survive regardless of age.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">11)<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/deranger-les-pierres" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #e55600; text-decoration-line: none;">Déranger Les Pierres</span></a></span></b>” - <span lang="EN">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><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/carlabrunissongsintranslation/goog_1388983901"><b><span lang="FR" style="border: 1pt none; color: #e55600; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">J</span></b></a><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/j-arrive-a-toi"><span lang="FR" style="border: 1pt none; color: #e55600; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">'arrive à toi</span></a><span lang="FR" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;"> </span>"<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/mon-raymond" target="_blank">Mon Raymond</a> "<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;">4)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span>"<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/pas-une-dame"><span lang="FR" style="color: #e55600; font-size: 12pt;">Pas Une Dame</span></a>"<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 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.<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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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">11)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span>"<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/little-french-song"><span lang="FR" style="border: 1pt none; color: #e55600; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">Little French Song</span></a><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span lang="FR"> </span>"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In this nice simple song , mainly in English, Carla enjoys herself rhyming English words and French.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">13)<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal;"> </span>"<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/originalcarlabrunisite/le-pingouin"><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #e55600; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0cm;">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.<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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<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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<br />David Yendleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09171810352548143316noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068332053655053423.post-82372038018825142202012-10-05T00:19:00.000+01:002015-02-14T20:07:35.770+00:00La Princesse et le croque-notes - a sweet trap innocently set by a vulnerable girlThis song describes an incident in the late 1940s when Brassens was still unsuccessful and living in an extremely squalid area of Paris. (He was known locally by the disrespectful nickname of "Croque-notes" -keyboard basher according to this account) It is the story of his encounter with a sweet thirteen year old girl that seems to have disturbed him long afterwards. She had made him a very personal invitation.
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comment which follows the You Tube video recording that I have embedded on this posting, is almost unanimous in finding the story deeply touching. The blogger “Benbuken” says that one listens to the poem with a lump in the throat as it contains so much emotion and truth. <br />
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Unfortunately, the very last line of the song intrudes to cause controversy - enough to cause even enthusiastic admirers to express very serious reservations. The line is open to different understandings however.<br />
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<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Jadis, au
lieu du jardin que voici, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">C'était
la zone(2) et tout ce qui s'ensuit, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Des
masures des taudis insolites, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Des
ruines pas romaines pour un sou.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Quant à
la faune habitant là-dessous <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">C'était
la fine fleur, c'était l'élite. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">La fine
fleur, l'élite du pavé, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Des
besogneux, des gueux, des réprouvés, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Des
mendiants rivalisant de tares, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Des
chevaux de retour, des propre' à rien, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Ainsi
qu'un croque-notes, un musicien, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Une épave
accrochée à sa guitare. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Adoptée
par ce beau monde attendri, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Une
petite fée avait fleuri <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Au milieu
de toute cette bassesse. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Comme on
l'avait trouvée près du ruisseau, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Abandonnée
en un somptueux berceau, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">À tout
hasard on l'appelait Princesse. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Or, un
soir, Dieu du ciel, protégez nous ! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">La voilà
qui monte sur les genoux <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Du
croque-notes et doucement soupire, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">En
rougissant quand même un petit peu : <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">"C'est
toi que j'aime et si tu veux tu peux <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">M'embrasser
sur la bouche et même pire...(3) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">"—
Tout beau, Princesse, arrête un peu ton tir, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">J'ai pas
tellement l'étoffe du satyre(4). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Tu as
treize ans, j'en ai trente qui sonnent, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Gross'
différence et je ne suis pas chaud <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Pour
tâter de la paille humide du cachot... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">— Mais,
Croque-notes, j'dirai rien à personne... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">—
N'insiste pas, fit-il d'un ton railleur, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">D'abord
tu n'es pas mon genre, et d'ailleurs <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Mon coeur
est déjà pris par une grande..." </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">(5)
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Alors
Princesse est partie en courant, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Alors
Princesse est partie en pleurant,(6) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Chagrine
qu'on ait boudé son offrande(7). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Y a pas
eu détournement de mineure, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Le
croque-notes, au matin, de bonne heure, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">À
l'anglaise a filé dans la charrette (8) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Des
chiffonniers en grattant sa guitare. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Passant
par là quelque vingt ans plus tard, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Il a le
sentiment qu'il le regrette.(9)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Georges
Brassens 1972 – Fernande<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">In times past instead of the garden
here <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">It was the Zone and all that that
implies <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Ramshackle homes and slums beyond
belief <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Ruins that were not Roman in the
least.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">As for the fauna dwelling there
beneath <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">T’was the fine flower, t’was the true
élite. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The fine flower, the elite of the
street-life, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Of the destitute, the outcasts, the
rogues, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Beggars competing their phys’cal
defects <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Of the jailbirds, of just good for
nothings, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Such as a pianist bloke, a music-man, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">A wreck washed up clinging to his
guitar. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Adopted by this chic smart set, soft
at heart, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">A little fairy had blossomed here <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">In the midst of all this degradation <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">As she had been found next to the
gutter <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Abandoned in a sumptuous cradle <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">They chanced on the name of Princess
for her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Now, one night, God in heaven, protect
us! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">There she is climbing up onto the
knees <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Of piano man and softly she sighs, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">While blushing all the same a tiny
bit: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">« It’s you I love and if you like you
can <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Kiss me upon my mouth and even worse…”
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">« -Steady on Princess, just hold your
fire,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I’m not made to be a cradle snatcher.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">You’re thirteen years old, I’m turning
thirty <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Big difference and I’m not all that
keen <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">To sample the damp straw down in the
clink.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">But piano-man, I won’t tell a soul <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“Don’t keep on like that”, said he
jokingly</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Firstly you are not my type and
besides <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">My heart’s already booked by a
grown-up …<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">At that Princesse left, running all
the way,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">At that princesse left , weeping all
the way, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Hurt that he had spurned her
benefaction There was no corruption of a minor. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The piano-man, in the morning early, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Stole away inside a rag and bone man’s
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Cart, while strumming notes on his
guitar. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Passing through there some twenty
years later <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">He has the feeling that he regrets it.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<br /></div>
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<strong>TRANSLATION NOTES</strong>
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<br />
1) le Croque-Notes - This is the nickname that Brassens gives himself in this story of himself where he talks of himself in the third person « he ». Larousse tells me that it means a bad musician. (There is a word “croquenot” that means a clodhopper shoe)
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<em>Picture below la Zone in 1939</em><br />
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2) La Zone – full name "zone militaire fortifiée", was the fortified ring built around the city in 1844. In later times, “la zone” came to mean the belt of land, 250 metres wide, which had been cleared outside the city fortifications, to remove cover benefitting an attacking enemy and to provide an unobstructed view for defending guns. During the late 19th century and early 20th century, shanty towns grew up illegally on this vacant land, housing the homeless poor, who were known as Zonards. When these were dismantled from 1919 onwards, the land was re-developed with a green belt of sports fields, parks etc. and a second belt of low-cost housing.
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<br />
3) tu peux m'embrasser sur la bouche et même pire – The little girl shows she is well aware that it is a very naughty thing that she is proposing, just as next when she says she will keep quiet about it. However the brazen nature of the proposal is tempered by the pathos of her words.
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<br />
4) Satyre -In classical Mythology this was one of a class of woodland deities, who were attendant on Bacchus. They appear in many works of art and are represented as part human, part horse and sometimes part goat and noted for riotousness and lasciviousness. As it is a learned word, it does not shock when Brassens uses it to say he isn't a sex fiend. In translation a word is needed appropriate to use to a little girl.
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<br />
5) Mon coeur est déjà pris par une grande….Brassens was living there as the secret lover of his landlady, Jeanne, who was very grown up. It has to be said that Brassens was not desperate for young love as he used to smuggle up to his room, a succession of young street women, hidden from the jealousy of Jeanne. His delight in their sensual offerings is seen in numerous poems e.g. <a href="http://brassenswithenglish.blogspot.co.uk/2008/04/les-amours-dantan-brassens-translation.html">Les amours d’autan</a>
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<br />
6) Princesse est partie en pleurant - it would seem that Brassens was startled to see the sudden deep distress that he had caused as she ran away in a flood of tears.
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<br />
7) on ait boudé son offrande – This line seems to show Brassens’ realisation of the insensitivity that he had shown. Princesse like Brassens was a different character from the rest of the natives of this area, where they had both found themselves washed up. The "love" she felt for him could have been an awareness of their affinity. The significant word is “offrande”. Even if she came as a sexual offering, he now sees it not as an offer "une offre"but as an "offrande", which has a spiritual overtone. Larousse defines the word "offrande" as “tout ce qu’on offre par une bonne oeuvre”. He knew that the little girl was different from the other girls who crept up to see him on a regular basis. Cruelly, because of his panic about her age, he had rebuffed her as if like them she was just coming for some moments of sexual fun. But she had offered love and deserved some tender understanding.
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<br />
8) a filé dans la charrette – The fact that he cleared off for a time is a further sign of the flap he was in about having an underage girl in his room.
It could be that Jeanne would have something to say about Princesse running from his room in great distress, the previous night and he thought it safer to lie low for a time.<br />
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9) Il a le sentiment qu'il le regrette – I leave this phrase vague in my translation. I have made clear my own interpretation in the translation notes abovebut there many different views of what Brassens actually regretted:
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The blogger, VALOOSHKA2307, says it is a beautiful song, but only if the final words of the song are deleted. In the last line, Brassens says (referring to himself in the third person): “ il a le sentiment qu'il le regrette". VALOOSHKA’s understanding is that “it” refers to his rejection of the little girl’s offer of sexual contact and that Brassens is now sorry that he did not sexually abuse a little kid of thirteen. There are other bloggers who express the same reaction, some with total disgust. However, other commentators, while going along with this interpretation, do not take the final remark so seriously. To them it is just Brassens, the anarchist, seeking to shock the croquants and croquantes by confessing his continuing appreciation of the potential charms of the young girl’s offer while still aware that it was out of bounds.<br />
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In my opinion this interpretation is wrong and risks destroying a sensitive poem. I believe that Brassens regretted not what he did, but the way that he did it. In my translation notes, I point out the lines of the poem that lead me to this conclusion. <br />
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There is the added complication that “regretter” in French has the extra meaning of “to miss”. In the last verse of "<a href="http://brassenswithenglish.blogspot.co.uk/2008/02/aupres-de-mon-arbre.html">Auprès de mon arbre</a>", he said how much he missed the simple life, however squalid – and the girls – that he enjoyed in the Impasse Florimont and perhaps this is the same meaning here.
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This song has grown on me as I have been working on it. I find myself wondering what happened to the unfortunate little girl- if she was, in fact, real. I would like to think that she made a stupendous success of her life after the disadvantage and sordidness of her early years from which she perhaps drew huge resources and great strength of character. I would see her becoming a modern version of Céleste Mogador, whom Paul Fort admired in “<a href="http://dbarf.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/si-le-bon-dieu-avait-voulu-paul-forts.html">Si le bon dieu avait voulu</a>”.
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If I was French and a talented writer, I would write a film script to celebrate Brassens’ music but, to avoid the corny run of the mill biography, tell principally the story of Mogador in the character of the “Princesse”. At every point where Brassens is weaved into the story, I would have Princesse outperform him.
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I have formed this notion as I would like to see the final moments of the film enacted from this poem:
Princesse is a beautiful woman in her thirties when the chance of circumstances puts her alone with Brassens for the first time since the fatal night in 1948. He has no idea who she is but he is strongly attracted to her and makes the inevitable pass. With a charming smile, she listens as each of his increasingly desperate chat-up lines fall flat . Then she makes a dignified response: <br />
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— N'insiste pas, fit- elle d'un ton railleur. D'abord vous n'êtes pas mon genre, et d'ailleurs, mon cœur est déjà pris par un grand..."
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The words strike home and Brassens is puzzled and taken aback. In the silent interval that follows there is some recognition then Princesse turns and walks elegantly away. <br />
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Classy films always end with someone walking off, but this Brassens film will have a refinement for Princesse will have a <a href="http://brassenswithenglish.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/venus-callipyge-this-song-was-inspired.html">Calipyge</a> rear to add to the hero’s final despair.
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