{"id":5823,"date":"2011-04-29T15:30:30","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T19:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=5823"},"modified":"2014-06-12T17:41:54","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T15:41:54","slug":"la-plume-de-ma-tante-my-aunts-pen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/la-plume-de-ma-tante-my-aunts-pen\/","title":{"rendered":"La Plume de Ma Tante (My Aunt&#8217;s Pen)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For the now-graying <strong>baby boomer<\/strong> generation, the title of &#8220;<em><strong>la plume de ma tante<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; often\u00a0evokes some fond and vivid early childhood memories; whereas for the progeny of the &#8220;<strong>Generation X<\/strong>&#8221; and above (<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/still-lost-in-abreviation-translation-part-2\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Generation Y<\/span><\/a> and Z), it most likely reminds them of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=if5YZiy6V2k\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">rather ghastly scene<\/span><\/a> of <strong><em>le film d&#8217;horreur <\/em><\/strong>(horror movie) &#8220;<strong><em>l&#8217;Exorciste<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;<strong><em>,<\/em><\/strong> which premiered in the movie theaters around the same time as the\u00a0<em><strong><em>av\u00e8nement<\/em> <\/strong><\/em>(advent) in the world of their own generation<strong>!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">* * *<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So what on Earth is &#8220;<em><strong>la Plume de Ma Tante<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Well, the word &#8220;<em><strong>plume<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; means &#8220;feather&#8221;, which in French refers to a &#8220;pen&#8221; in general, or a &#8220;quill&#8221; in particular.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nsa20.casimages.com\/img\/2010\/12\/28\/101228123511114554.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"323\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Une plume et une feuille (A quill and a paper)<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">* * *<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In fact,\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;la plume de ma tante<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;, as mysterious or plain random as it may sound, is nothing more\u00a0than a musical<strong>!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It was written and directed by <strong>Robert Dhery<\/strong>, translated in English by <strong>Ross Parker<\/strong>,\u00a0and set to music by <strong>G\u00e9rard Calvi<\/strong>, who is mostly known for his work in several\u00a0<strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/la-chanson-dasterix-the-song-of-asterix\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ast\u00e9rix et Ob\u00e9lix<\/span><\/a> <\/em><\/strong>movies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">* * *<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T72RFqGPcd8\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T72RFqGPcd8<\/a><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <strong>&#8220;Ob\u00e9lix Samba&#8221;, by\u00a0G\u00e9rard Calvi<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hugo &amp; Luigi - La plume de ma tante\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FmVeQZFNIM0?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><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The duo cousins Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore, known as &#8220;Hugo and Luigi&#8221; sing\u00a0&#8220;<em>La plume de ma tante<\/em>&#8221; (&#8220;My Aunt&#8217;s Pen&#8221;)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>*&#8221;La plume de ma tante&#8221; (&#8220;My Aunt&#8217;s Pen&#8221;):<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>La\u00a0plume de\u00a0ma tante<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">My aunt&#8217;s pen<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Est sur le bureau de mon oncle<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Is on the bureau of my uncle<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Le papier de mon oncle<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The paper of my uncle<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Est sur le bureau de\u00a0ma tante.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Is on the bureau of my aunt<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>The pen of my aunt<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Is on the bureau of my uncle,<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>The paper of my uncle<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Is on the bureau of my aunt.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>If you don&#8217;t parlez vous franais<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Then this will be Greek to you,<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>If you can&#8217;t figure out what the words are all about<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Just sing la la la la loo<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>La la la La\u00a0plume de\u00a0ma tante<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The pen of my aunt<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Est sur le bureau de mon oncle,<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Is on the bureau of my uncle<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Le papier de mon oncle<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The paper of my uncle<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Est sur la bureau de\u00a0ma tante<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Is on the bureau of my aunt<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the now-graying baby boomer generation, the title of &#8220;la plume de ma tante&#8221; 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