La chanson du jour - French songs 101

Maxime Le Forestier: Les jours meilleurs (1983)

YT (live in 2002)

Maxime Le Forestier: Fontenay aux Roses (1972)

YT

Maxime Le Forestier: La petite fugue (1969)

Finding this nice song of 1969 on YouTube. Or this version live, much later, in 2002, with 3 guitars :)

Or this version by Catherine Le Forestier (sister and co-author).

Georges Brassens: Dans l'eau de la claire fontaine (1962)

On YouTube this brazilian like version by Maxime le Forestier. Excellent. Here Brassens himself in live concert (with spanish subtitles). Lyrics below. When Maxime tells Brassens he has changed a bit the song, Georges Brassens answers "you do as you please, they (the songs) belong to everybody" (tu fais ce que tu veux, elles sont à tout le monde')

Maxime Le Forestier: Parachutiste (1971)

This version is not by Maxime le Forestier. It is one of his first songs (1971). A classic antimilitarist song.

Here the version by Maxime's sister, Catherine.

Lyrics

I realize I have not selected Fontenay aux Roses that is also one of the best songs on the 1972 album.