Mon amie la rose

Mon amie la rose is one of the most successful songs by Françoise Hardy, which was first published in November 1964 on an EP and an album under the same name. Cécile Caulier wrote the song in 1959 and set to music Text him with Jacques Lacome.

The singer told as a parable of human life from the rose, her "friend" who complains, " how insignificant we are still " ( on est bien peu de chose ). No sooner born, the Rose enjoys a brief happiness, it must wither and perish. All that remains is the hope.

Genesis

On November 20, 1959, was diagnosed with leukemia French actress Sylvia Lopez ( 1931-1959 ) died at the young age of 28, during the filming of a movie. The early death of the young woman did the French author, composer and singer Cécile Caulier (1930-2009) in such a way that they are still in the same year wrote her allegorical song from flowering and decay of the rose. She set it together with Jacques Lacome, but remained the search for an artist for the time being unsuccessful.

Mireille Mathieu knew the song and its author, and assured her that " her song will have his fate ." As Françoise Hardy met in 1962 at the Petit Conservatoire de la Chanson with Mireille Mathieu, this drew their attention to the song. In November of next year Françoise Hardy learned after a performance at the Paris Olympia by Cécile Caulier that she still had not found a performer for her chanson. She let him send the text of her and finally made it against the resistance of her directeur artistique and other people in their environment, the Chanson bring out a year later in November 1964. With their delicate and fragile voice and her gentle lecture Françoise Hardy helped the song to a large, even international success.

Cécile Caulier interpreted her 1966 song one time on TV yourself. A successful arabisierende version of song 1999, it introduced the Belgian chanteuse Natacha Atlas out.

Chanson text

The original text of the chanson is published on the website of Cécile Caulier.

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