{"id":4154,"date":"2010-07-14T08:20:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T13:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=4154"},"modified":"2010-07-14T08:20:36","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T13:20:36","slug":"bastille-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/bastille-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Bastille Day…"},"content":{"rendered":"

… also my birthday. Best revolutionary French song is certainly not the blood-soaked nationalistic anthem, but the one that speaks of my favorite fruit, “Le temps des Cerises,” associated with the Commune uprising. It is also one of Nicole’s favorites, so I stole the embed code from her post on facebook, to get myself a quick and easy post on this b-day. Enjoy!<\/p>\n

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The song ( music by Antoine Renard, lyrics by Jean-Baptiste Cl\u00e9ment) was of course a love song first, (check details of composition here<\/a>) though during the war in 1871 the following stanza was added (& damn it, it’s my b-day, I’m off work for 24 hours & thus will not translate this \u2014 try your google auto-translator):<\/p>\n

Quand il reviendra le temps des cerises
\nPendores idiots magistrats moqueurs
\nSeront tous en f\u00eate.
\nLes bourgeois auront la folie en t\u00eate
\nA l’ombre seront po\u00e8tes chanteurs.
\nMais quand reviendra le temps des cerises
\nSiffleront bien haut chassepots vengeurs.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The original stanzas are:<\/p>\n

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Quand nous chanterons, le temps des cerises
\nEt gai rossignol et merle moqueur
\nSeront tous en f\u00eate.
\nLes belles auront la folie en t\u00eate
\nEt les amoureux du soleil au coeur
\nQuand nous chanterons, le temps des cerises
\nSifflera bien mieux le merle moqueur.<\/p>\n

Mais il est bien court le temps des cerises
\nO\u00f9 l’on s’en va deux cueillir en r\u00eavant
\nDes pendants d’oreilles,
\nCerises d’amour aux robes pareilles
\nTombant sous la feuille en gouttes de sang.
\nMais il est bien court le temps des cerises
\nPendant de corail qu’on cueille en r\u00eavant.<\/p>\n

Quand vous en serez au temps des cerises
\nSi vous avez peur des chagrins d’amour
\nEvitez les belles!
\nMoi qui ne crains pas les peines cruelles
\nJe ne vivrai point sans souffrir un jour.
\nQuand vous en serez au temps des cerises
\nVous aurez aussi des peines d’amour.<\/p>\n

J’aimerai toujours le temps des cerises
\nC’est de ce temps l\u00e0 que je garde au coeur
\nUne plaie ouverte.
\nEt Dame Fortune en m’\u00e9tant offerte
\nNe pourra jamais fermer ma douleur,
\nJ’aimerai toujours le temps des cerises
\nEt le souvenir que je garde au coeur.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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