[Serge Gainsbourg] knew no cultural boundaries. He was a Eurovision Song Contest winner — 1965, representing Luxembourg, not France — who was also compared to France's greatest poets. When he died, in 1991, president Francois Mitterrand called him "our Apollinaire, our Baudelaire".Pfft. Trust a Frenchman to think one of theirs could be as talented as Apollinaire or Baudelaire.
It all makes sense once you realize that Francois Mitterrand was a secret Luxembourger.
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"our Apollinaire, our Baudelaire"
ReplyDeleteNumber One with a bullet!
Huh.
ReplyDeleteI always thought they were Belgians...
W/V offers a creative new epithet to be flung at the bookish and well-read - literd
Francois Mitterrand was a secret Luxembourger.
ReplyDeleteOr a secret Russian emigre.
Also noteworthy:
"But we had the best defendants," [Birkin] adds, recalling that Francois Truffaut was an advocate".
This was in the Age, a Murdoch paper, so I am willing to believe that the illiteracy and bizarre word choices are the work of the columnist rather than of her interviewees.
I am quite prepared to believe Australians got something wrong, the sexy accented buggers.
ReplyDeleteI will have you know that the Frau Doktorin finds my accent sexy, especially the way I say "Mmmfffmfffmmmff".
ReplyDeleteLuxemBOURGEOIS!!
ReplyDeleteSerge Gainsbourg's greatest moment
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