L'Ame des Poetes (soul of the poets)
Hitler rounded up and exterminated poets and writers wherever the Third Reich advanced. He considered artists and intellectuals to be as much a threat as jews, gypsies, homosexuals or any other group this paranoid, power mad psychopath tried to stamp out.
This is a bittersweet post war song by Charles Trenet, sung here by Juliette Greco, about how the poets may be long gone, but their songs are remembered and cherished, heard ringing in the streets by sidewalk musicians, or sung by mothers to lullabye their babies to sleep, songs never lost nor forgotten.
This is one of the better re-masters for sound quality. Juliette Greco was 13 years old when Hitler's troops marched into Paris. Her mother was a capitaine of Le Maquis, the French Resistance. Her older sister worked for the resistance too. Both were imprisoned for it, leaving Greco alone in her family's apartment, to fend for herself. She pioneered the look of mens wear for women because it was what she had, hand-me-downs from men in her building. She could easily have fallen into prostitution to avoid starvation, had it not been for a woman in her building who introduced her to a movie producer. Greco's first fame was as an actress, later as a singer.