The Hebdo 181
Cherries
The time of the cherries has just ended... They seem very short these few weeks of May and June which – after Jean-Baptiste Clément* – bring joy to nightingale and mocking hags.
It's a love poem first
written in 1866 which becomes a song
when Antoine Renard put him in music (1868).
When we sing the time of cherries
And gay nightingale and merle mocker
All will be celebrating
The beautiful will have madness in mind
And the sun lovers in the heart
When we sing the time of cherries
Siffle the mocking hag much better
Continuation
Son of a rich miller, Jean-Baptiste Clement was only 14 years old when he left the family home; he worked in various trades before joining Paris, where he met journalists writing particularly in Paris. The Cree of the People, daily hostile to the politics of Adolphe Thiers... « and the hill Montmartre consecrated him man of letters« .
It is on the barricades when the insurrection of 1871 broke out, bloody and murderous civil war: The Commune of Paris.
– But what does it have to do with the song?
She's already well known. For some, « open wound » and « cherries of love falling in drop of blood » the fighting of the Bloody Week ; The chorus of love tinted with nostalgia becomes a song of revolt. In 1882 Clément dedicated her song to a nurse met during the clashes: « To the valiant citizen Louise, the ambulance of Fontaine-au-Roi Street ».
He died on 23 February 1903. 4 to 5,000 people attend his funeral.
Jeanne Monin
*Born in died in Paris in 1903. Songwriter Montmartre, journalist, unionist. Sources: various sites.
N°181 → photo : des griottes.
I was just like François. I think I ate more than I put in the basket!
Unfortunately, this year the price of cherries puts the clafoutis at the price of duck needles with truffled foie gras!
Jeanne Monin
Remembrance… Summer 43: France suffers but for the Parisian child that I am, accustomed to asphalt and plane trees trapped in iron grills, the garden of my aunt is a little paradise!
Its huge property – in fact, a few square meters of land like many suburban gardens – is completely shaded by two trees: a pear tree and a cherry tree; That is, if it is vast!
Moment of happiness that of picking cherries... I admire the audacity of my aunt when she climbs to the scale on which she attached a small basket of bones, as in François' photo.
– Yes, it's a bird that ate it.
- The Echoes of the Week
Quiz!
Photographer's eye
The pigeons
The petanque - Passadoc
In the library
Quiz!
Photographer's eye...
Apparently, the table is famous...
Two pigeons...
Deux pigeons s’aimaient d’amour tendre.
L’un d’eux s’ennuyant au logis
Fut assez fou pour entreprendre
Un voyage en lointain pays.
L’autre lui dit : « Qu’allez-vous faire ?
Voulez-vous quitter votre frère ?
L’absence est le plus grand des maux :
Non pas pour vous, cruel. Au moins que les travaux,
Les dangers, les soins du voyage, Changent un peu votre courage.
Encore si la saison s’avançait davantage !Attendez les zéphyrs. Qui vous presse ?
The petanque
Un nombre qui ne cesse d’augmenter… »
Dans la bibliothèque...
L’Abecedari Occitan, un livre d’Andrieu ABBE édité en novembre 2023.
C’est un recueil de chroniques écrites de 1983 à 2023. […] chaque lettre de l’alphabet est illustrée par une chronique et une photo de l’auteur.
Les trois dialectes de l’Occitanie orientale (Région Sud PACA) y sont représentés : la préface du livre est en alpin, le livre en provençal et la dernière de couverture en niçois.
Le livre est en couleur et contient 72 pages. Son prix 15 € : la recette de la vente est au bénéfice de l’École Calandreta Maurís Sgaravizzi à Nice.
Cited in The Gazette : André Abbe – François Abbe – Claude Boyer – Maryse Laugier – Jeanne Monin
Editor in Chief : Jeanne Monin
