{"id":1617,"date":"2010-09-23T22:22:54","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T22:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2017-10-18T13:15:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T11:15:21","slug":"foule-sentimentale-alain-souchon-made-in-mozer-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/foule-sentimentale-alain-souchon-made-in-mozer-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Foule Sentimentale&#8221; by Alain Souchon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After <strong>Charles Aznavour<\/strong> and\u00a0<em>mes amis arm\u00e9niens <\/em>(regardez<strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/la-boheme-charles-aznavour\/\"><strong><em>La Boh\u00e8me<\/em> (Charles Aznavour<\/strong>)<\/a>), here comes the turn of my many <em>amis russes<\/em>, who love listening to <strong>Patricia Kaas <\/strong>-among others- probably more than French people do today\u00a0in France!<\/p>\n<p>Ever since the time of <strong><em>Pierre <abbr title=\"Premier\">I<sup>er<\/sup><\/abbr> de Russie<\/em><\/strong>, known as <strong><em>&#8220;Pierre le Grand&#8221;<\/em> <\/strong>(&#8220;Peter the Great&#8221;), Russians have been very much\u00a0fond of French culture, whether in art,\u00a0literature, or music. It therefore does not come as a surprise to see that <strong>Myl\u00e8ne Farmer, Vanessa Paradis, Patricia Kaas, <\/strong>or the <em>com\u00e9die musicale<\/em> (musical) of <strong>Notre-Dame de Paris <\/strong>enjoy an incredible wave of popularity in Russia, even today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ele36V1_ECU\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ele36V1_ECU<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Notre-Dame\u00a0de Paris (&#8220;Made in Mother Russia&#8221;)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In <strong>Saint-Petersbourg<\/strong>, <strong><em>Moscou<\/em> <\/strong>(Moscow), <em><strong>Novossibirsk<\/strong><\/em> (or Novosibirsk, in English), <em><strong>Tcheliabinsk<\/strong> <\/em>(Chelyabinsk), or <strong>Vladivostok<\/strong>, <strong>Alain Souchon <\/strong>is absolutely no exception!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/missssskind.no.sapo.pt\/dbimg\/souchonfoulesentimentale.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"299\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This <strong>French singer<\/strong> (and in fact, <strong>actor<\/strong> as well),\u00a0who was born in <strong>Casablanca<\/strong>,\u00a0<em>au <strong>Maroc<\/strong> <\/em>(in Morocco) and holds\u00a0a<strong>\u00a0Swiss\u00a0<\/strong>citizenship, whose favorite instrument is <strong><em>la guitare acoustique<\/em><\/strong>, is simply <em>un personnage\u00a0incontournable <\/em>(an inescapable character) of today&#8217;s French artistic scene.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DJ Yankovski vs DJ Smash - Moscow Sentimentale (Ivan Silver bootleg).wmv\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3RrY7I8gYSs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 La version\u00a0du russe\u00a0DJ Yankovsky\u00a0de &#8220;Foule Sentimentale&#8221;\u00a0par\u00a0Alain Souchon<br \/>\n<\/em>(Russian DJ Yankovsky&#8217;s version of <em>&#8220;Foule Sentimentale&#8221; <\/em>by Alain Souchon.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Souchon&#8217;s\u00a0song &#8220;<strong><em>Foule Sentimentale<\/em><\/strong>&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0as you can tell from the lyrics- is a sort of <em>r\u00e9action <\/em>(or like the French like to say sometimes, &#8220;<em>un coup de gueule<\/em>&#8220;)<em>\u00a0<\/em>aimed against the cruel emergence of <em><strong>la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 de consommation<\/strong> <\/em>(societie&#8217;s consumerism.) The ultimate paradox is, as\u00a0<em>une vue lucide des choses <\/em>(a lucid view of things)\u00a0would necessarily\u00a0yield, that\u00a0Alain Souchon belonged to those\u00a0same &#8220;actors of change&#8221;\u00a0within society, known as <em>&#8220;<strong>les Baby Boomers<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;, <em>la g\u00e9n\u00e9ration &#8220;<strong>hippie<\/strong>&#8220;<\/em>, in their twenties in the\u00a01960s,\u00a0who though undoubtedly\u00a0idealistic and well-intentioned, have nevertheless\u00a0chose to\u00a0<em>balayer<\/em> <em>d&#8217;un revers\u00a0de la main<\/em>\u00a0(brush aside) the fundamental teachings of\u00a0<strong>Platon <\/strong>(Plato), <strong>Saint-Augustin<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>Dante Alighieri<\/strong>,\u00a0as well as\u00a0other<em> &#8220;<strong>classiques<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; of <strong><em>la civilisation occidentale<\/em>, <\/strong>and\u00a0thus have <em>involontairement<\/em>\u00a0(unwittingly)\u00a0paved the way for the rise\u00a0of the very same\u00a0consumerist, unprincipled,\u00a0society\u00a0that they criticized later.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, <strong>Souchon <\/strong>himself seems to have more or less\u00a0reached this painfully\u00a0&#8220;sobering&#8221; conclusion,\u00a0as in his <em><strong>&#8220;Lennon Kaput Valse.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Since most of the readers who read\u00a0our &#8220;French Blog&#8221; belong to the \u00a0<strong><em>G\u00e9n\u00e9ration X, <\/em><\/strong>which immediately followed Souchon&#8217;s (and the &#8220;68ers&#8221;) &#8220;Baby Boom&#8221; generation, and which has\u00a0often been accused of utter indifference towards the world (and laziness in general), I invite you to prove them wrong, by translating yourself the lyrics of <strong><em>&#8220;Foule Sentimentale&#8221; <\/em><\/strong>(meaning &#8220;Sentimental Crowd.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alain Souchon - Foule sentimentale (Clip officiel)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V_SNDGwwGFM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Oh la la la vie en rose<br \/>\nLe rose qu&#8217;on nous propose<br \/>\nD&#8217;avoir les quantit\u00e9s d&#8217;choses<br \/>\nQui donnent envie d&#8217;autre chose<br \/>\nA\u00efe, on nous fait croire<br \/>\nQue le bonheur c&#8217;est d&#8217;avoir<br \/>\nDe l&#8217;avoir plein nos armoires<br \/>\nD\u00e9risions de nous d\u00e9risoires car<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Foule sentimentale<br \/>\nOn a soif d&#8217;id\u00e9al<br \/>\nAttir\u00e9e par les \u00e9toiles, les voiles<br \/>\nQue des choses pas commerciales<br \/>\nFoule sentimentale<br \/>\nIl faut voir comme on nous parle<br \/>\nComme on nous parle<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Il se d\u00e9gage<br \/>\nDe ces cartons d&#8217;emballage<br \/>\nDes gens lav\u00e9s, hors d&#8217;usage<br \/>\nEt tristes et sans aucun avantage<br \/>\nOn nous inflige<br \/>\nDes d\u00e9sirs qui nous affligent<br \/>\nOn nous prend faut pas d\u00e9conner d\u00e8s qu&#8217;on est n\u00e9<br \/>\nPour des cons alors qu&#8217;on est<br \/>\nDes<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Foules sentimentales<br \/>\nAvec soif d&#8217;id\u00e9al<br \/>\nAttir\u00e9es par les \u00e9toiles, les voiles<br \/>\nQue des choses pas commerciales<br \/>\nFoule sentimentale<br \/>\nIl faut voir comme on nous parle<br \/>\nComme on nous parle<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>On nous Claudia Schieffer<br \/>\nOn nous Paul-Loup Sulitzer<br \/>\nOh le mal qu&#8217;on peut nous faire<br \/>\nEt qui ravagea la mouk\u00e8re<br \/>\nDu ciel d\u00e9vale<br \/>\nUn d\u00e9sir qui nous emballe<br \/>\nPour demain nos enfants p\u00e2les<br \/>\nUn mieux, un r\u00eave, un cheval<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Foule sentimentale<br \/>\nOn a soif d&#8217;id\u00e9al<br \/>\nAttir\u00e9e par les \u00e9toiles, les voiles<br \/>\nQue des choses pas commerciales<br \/>\nFoule sentimentale<br \/>\nIl faut voir comme on nous parle<br \/>\nComme on nous parle<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Charles Aznavour and\u00a0mes amis arm\u00e9niens (regardez\u00a0La Boh\u00e8me (Charles Aznavour)), here comes the turn of my many amis russes, who love listening to Patricia Kaas -among others- probably more than French people do today\u00a0in France! 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