Mon amie la rose

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Françoise Hardy, 1969

Mon amie la rose is one of Françoise Hardy's most successful chansons , which was first released in November 1964 on an EP and in an album under the same name. Cécile Caulier wrote the chanson text in 1959 and set it to music together with Jacques Lacome.

As a parable of human life, the singer tells of the rose, her "friend", who complains "how insignificant we are" (on est bien peu de chose). No sooner has the rose been born than it enjoys a brief moment of happiness, then it has to wither and perish. Only hope remains.

History of origin

On November 20, 1959, the French film actress Sylvia Lopez (1931–1959), who was suffering from leukemia, died at the young age of 28 while making a film. The young woman's early death touched the French author, composer and interpreter Cécile Caulier (1930–2009) in such a way that she wrote her allegorical chanson of the blooming and fading of the rose in the same year. She set it to music together with Jacques Lacome, but the search for an interpreter was initially unsuccessful.

Natacha Atlas, 2006

Mireille Hartuch knew the chanson and its author and assured her that “her chanson will have its fate”. When Françoise Hardy met Mireille Hartuch at the Petit Conservatoire de la Chanson in 1962 , she drew her attention to the chanson. In November of the next year, after a performance at the Paris Olympia from Cécile Caulier, Françoise Hardy learned that she had still not found an interpreter for her chanson. She had her send the lyrics to her and finally managed, against the opposition of her directeur artistique and other people around her, to bring the chanson out a year later in November 1964. With her delicate and fragile voice and her gentle performance, Françoise Hardy helped the chanson to achieve great international success.

Cécile Caulier interpreted her chanson only once on television in 1966. The Belgian chanson singer Natacha Atlas brought out a successful arabic version of the chanson in 1999 .

Chanson text

The original text of the chanson is printed on Cécile Caulier's website.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Mon amie la rose": Cécile Caulier, l'auteure n'est plus: http://infos-news-bulletin-reponse.over-blog.com/article-30166576.html ( Memento from April 11, 2013 in Web archive archive.today ) .
  2. ↑ "Mon amie la rose": Cécile Caulier, l'auteure n'est plus: http://infos-news-bulletin-reponse.over-blog.com/article-30166576.html ( Memento from April 11, 2013 in Web archive archive.today ) .
  3. ↑ At the Small Conservatory of Chanson, founded by Mireille Hartuch in 1955, budding chanson singers could be trained free of charge. See: Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lehall.com
  4. ↑ Artistic director (the term art director does not apply).
  5. ↑ See: [1] .
  6. ^ Website of Cécile Caulier .

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