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Georges Brassens - Les Copains d'abord
This song is a great hymn to true friendship by Georges Brassens. The song was written in 1964 and still very much popular and known by French people by Jan 26
Brassens was born in Sète , a town in southern France near Montpellier . Now an iconic figure in France, he achieved fame through his elegant songs with their harmonically complex music for voice and guitar and articulate, diverse lyrics; indeed, he is considered one of France's most accomplished postwar poets. He has also set to music poems by both well-known and relatively obscure poets, including Louis Aragon ( Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux ), Victor Hugo ( La Légende de la Nonne , Gastibelza ), Jean Richepin , François Villon ( La Ballade des Dames du Temps Jadis ), and Guillaume Apollinaire , Antoine Pol ( Les Passantes ).
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The songs of Georges Brassens with English translation
More than fifty of the best-known songs of Georges Brassens with videos of Brassens performing the songs and English translations - also textual and biographical comments Don Juan (Album- Don Juan - 1976 )The story of a modern Don Juan who has loved many women. Brassens would like us to look at him in a charitable and tolerant spirit. Les Philistins (1957 - Je me suis fait tout petit)-Brassens song of the poem by Jean Richepin about a son who disappointed his parents' aspirations BONHOMME - HER GOOD MAN (1958 - Le pornographe)A poem of great pathos as a peasant woman faces the death of her husband and the memories stirred.
More than fifty of the best-known songs of Georges Brassens with videos of Brassens performing the songs and English translations - also textual and biographical comments Les Copains d'Abord is dedicated to the close friends who joined Brassens on boating trips off the South coast of France in a boat called “Les copains d'abord”. The song was written for a film, Les copains (1964), directed by Yves Robert. One of the striking features of Brassens’ life was the enduring friendships that he forged, evident also in his other songs.
Les Copains d'Abord - Ballade des dames du temps jadis
QUAND LE CROQU’MORT… - L’Auvergnat est mort - Big Browser - Blog LeMonde.fr
"Toi l'étranger quand tu mourras /Quand le croqu'mort t'emportera / Qu'il te conduise à travers ciel/ Au père éternel" , les dernières paroles de Chanson pour l'Auvergnat , de Georges Brassens, ont des accents funèbres aujourd'hui. La Montagne annonce la mort de Louis Cambon, l'Auvergnat à qui Georges Brassens aurait dédié cette chanson en 1954. L'homme est mort à Raulhac, dans le Cantal à l'âge de 95 ans précise le journal. C'est dans le "Bar des amis", troquet du quatorzième arrondissement de Paris que les deux hommes se seraient rencontrés raconte Sud-Ouest . Louis Cambon, tenancier du bar, décrivait les habitudes de Georges Brassens dans une interview accordée à La Montagne en 1998 : il "s'installait à un coin du comptoir et ne disait mot".