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« Je donne mon avis non comme bon mais comme mien. » — Michel de Montaigne

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Ne serait-il pas utile que Le Monde apprenne à écrire avant de vouloir nous l’enseigner (pour la modique somme de 1 500 €) ?

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“My brother-in law had, on the paternal side, a first cousin whose maternal uncle had a father-in-law whose paternal grandfather had married as his second wife a young native whose brother he had met on one of his travels, a girl of whom he was enamored and by whom he had a son who married an intrepid lady pharmacist who was none other than the niece of an unknown fourth-class petty officer of the Royal Navy and whose adopted father had an aunt who spoke Spanish fluently and who was, perhaps, one of the granddaughters of an engineer who died young, himself the grandson of the owner of a vineyard which produced mediocre wine, but wh had a second cousin, a stay-at-home, a sergeant-major, whose son had married a very pretty young woman, a divorcee, whose first husband was the son of a loyal patriot who, in the hope of making his fortune, had managed to bring up one of his daughters so that she could marry a footman who had known Rothschild, and whose brother, after having changed his trade several times, married and had a daughter whose stunted great-grandfather wore spectacles which had been given him by a cousin of his, the brother-in-law of a man from Portugal, natural son of a miller, not too badly off, whose foster brother had married the daughter of a former country doctor, who was himself a foster-brother of the son of a forrester, himself the natural son of another country doctor, married three times in a row, whose third wife was the daughter of the best midwife in the region and who, early left a widow, had married a glazier who was full of life and who had had, by the daughter of a station master, a child who had burned his bridges and had married an oyster woman, whose father had a brother, mayor of a small town, who had taken as his wife a blonde schoolteacher, whose cousin, a fly fisherman had married another blonde schoolteacher, named Marie, too, whose brother was married to another Marie, also a blonde schoolteacher whose father had been reared in Canada by an old woman who was the niece of a priest whose grandmother, occasionally in the winter, like everyone else, caught a cold.”

— Eugene Ionesco, The Bald Soprano.

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«Never in the past few decades at least has a president engaged in such an angry, scathing attack on a visiting foreign leader in the Oval Office. Their argument culminated with a threat that if Mr. Zelensky did not accept whatever peace deal Mr. Trump brokered with Russia, the United States would abandon Ukraine. The fracas led Mr. Trump to kick Mr. Zelensky out of the White House. The schism upended plans to sign a deal giving the United States rights to Ukrainian rare minerals, a concession Mr. Trump had demanded as payback for help with the war.

Mr. Trump often exhibits anger in public in ways other presidents have rarely done, particularly at rallies or in interviews. Just the other day, he snapped at the governor of Maine about transgender athletes. But he has never appeared so enraged and combative with a foreign visitor, especially a putative ally in the middle of a war for his country’s survival.

The closest analogy might be a few meetings he had with congressional Democrats during his first term when he quarreled with Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker at the time, and Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democratic majority leader. »At one of them, in fact, Ms. Pelosi famously stood, pointed a finger at him and snapped, “All roads with you lead to Putin.”

Peter Baker: “In Showdown With Zelensky, Trump Takes Offense on Putin’s Behalf”, The New York Times, Feb. 28, 2025.

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La Baya – chanson chinoise, paroles de Marcel Heurtebise et musique de Henri Christiné, fut créée par Fragson en 1911. Elle eut un succès immédiat, et fut reprise par bien d’autres après lui : Charlus (1911), Elwel¹ (1911), Paul Lack² (1911), Alfred Nohcor³ (1916), Paul Roby (1956), Jean Parédès (1957), Suzy Delair (1958), Christian Borel (1961), Maurice Chevalier (1962), Aimé Doniat (1962), Paolo Poli (1967, en italien), Georgette Plana (1971), Guy Béart (1982), Karen Cheryl⁴ (1983), Danyel Dorgère et son orchestre (2010), Jules et son limonaire (2010)…

Il existe aussi un enregistrement d’Arletty, sur la même musique, mais avec des paroles tout à fait différentes, sans aucun rapport avec ce que raconte l’original, comme on peut le voir ci-dessous. Cette version est apparue en 1934 dans l’operette Le Bonheur, Mesdames ! de Francis de Croisset (d’après sa pièce éponyme représentée en 1905 au Théâtre des Variétés), musique du même Henri Christiné pour la musique et couplets d’Albert Willemetz, qui y a introduit des adaptations de chansons célèbres de Christiné.

Arletty y tient le rôle de Fernande. En épousant le marquis Adhémar d’Arromanches (Michel Simon, lors de la création), trop âgé pour elle, elle se rend compte qu’elle a fait une bêtise. Son dépit est d’autant plus vif que Georges (René Koval), le meilleur ami de son mari, ne cache pas sa félicité auprès de Paulette (Suzanne Dantès), épouse charmante et dévouée…

Quant au titre de la chanson, inchangé (pour les nombreuses publications de la version Arletty), il semblerait qu’il dénote « une grande dame, noble et distinguée, mais aussi confiante et autoritaire », ce qui pourrait correspondre aux deux personnages dont parlent ces deux versions – la petite Chinoise divine chez Fragson, la marquise dépitée chez Arletty.

Michel Simon et Arletty, in Le Bonheur, mesdames ! Cliquer pour agrandir.

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