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Le A rowing song. This story of the ship’s boy falling overboard has historical roots—the ship actually existed, and the event really happened. And the song has endured. As we’ve noted elsewhere, Françoise was deeply attached to her native Brittany. In the 16th century, the Piston branch of the family was settled in Saint-Servan (Saint-Malo). They…
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Le A song by Henri Heugel, circa the late 19th century.
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Le Is it a song by Françoise, or perhaps an old, realistic song that we haven’t been able to track down?…
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Le Jean Royer, a national French politician and mayor of [city], was at the time the symbol of rigid Catholic morality and, as a result, homophobia.
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Le Well, my mom (who’s a saint, since she’s My Mom) hadn’t bragged to me about that one. I should mention that at the time of that feat, I was only 12 to 15 years old—that explains it. (Vincent)
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Le To the tune of La Mauvaise Réputation by Georges Brassens.
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Le Inspiring! Parents will generally avoid singing this Christmas carol in front of the nativity scene while their little ones are present.
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Le 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.
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Le Paris, Editions Editions Grasset, septembre 2025 David Dufresne, still at the helm of his Brigade Au Poste, found the time to devote to his grandmother by writing this book. You may have read by the same author Tarnac, magasin général, Prix des Assises 2012. In this book, intimate reflection is combined with rigorous investigation, a…