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.
One of them boring at home
Was crazy enough to do it.
A journey to distant countries.
The other said: « What are you going to do?
Do you want to leave your brother?
Absence is the greatest evil:
Not for you, cruel. At least the works,
The dangers, the care of travel, change your courage a little.
Again if the season went further! Wait for the zephyrs. Who's pressing you?
The petanque
A number that keeps growing... »
In the library...
LAbecedari Occitan, a bookAndrieu ABBE published in November 2023.
It is a collection of chronicles written from 1983 to 2023. [...] each letter of the alphabet is illustrated by a chronicle and a photo of the author.
The three dialects of East Occitania (South PACA region) are represented: the preface of the book is in Alpine, the book in Provençal and the last cover in Nice.
The book is in color and contains 72 pages. Its price 15 € : the revenue of the sale is to the benefit of theCalandreta Maurís Sgaravizzi School Nice.
Cited in The Gazette : André Abbe – François Abbe – Claude Boyer – Maryse Laugier – Jeanne Monin
Editor in Chief : Jeanne Monin
