Les Stances
A song by Christiane Rochefort, written for the French Women’s Liberation Movement.
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Le Fiacre
A song from Françoise’s childhood. In the 1920s and 1930s, cars were far less common than horse-drawn carriages. But they would never become as widespread as those.
