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by Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers (1772 - 1827)

Les médisants
 (Sung text for setting by H. Bosmans)
 See original
Language: French (Français) 
Le perruquier du quartier
Médit du cabaretier,
Qui médit du fruitier,
Qui médit du charpentier,
Qui médit du ferblantier,
Qui médit du bottier,
Qui médit du cafetier.
La vieille mercière
Dit que le libraire
Fut jadis à Châlons
Marchand d'habits, vieux galons;
Et notre portière
Dit que la laitière
Vend son lait bien plus cher
Au vieil huissier qu'à son clerc.
Bref, de notre métier
Cancaner est le métier:
Chefs, commis, fabricants,
Ne vivent que de cancans.
On cancane en déjeunant,
On recancane en dinant,
C'est cancan sur cancan,
Qui finiront Dieu sait quand!

Composition:

    Set to music by Henriëtte Bosmans (1895 - 1952), "Les médisants", 1951 [ medium voice and piano ], from Dix mélodies, no. 10, Amsterdam, Éd. Broekmans en Van Poppel

Text Authorship:

  • by Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers (1772 - 1827), no title, appears in Chansons et poésies diverses de Désaugiers, in 3. Les cancans populaires, no. 1, Paris, chez Ladvocat, first published 1867

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