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You understand it as you see fit...
LA PHOTOGRAPHIE
G. Goublier & J. Coste / J.Coste - Adapt. Ch. de Mussan

Entre ses doigts on prend l’cliché
Et puis à l’instar de Gribouille
Pour qu’il n’entre pas trop séché
Dans son petit bain on le mouille
Ceci fait délicatement
Sans secousse, avec minutie
On commence le développement,
L' développement d' la photographie

Le cliché baignant dans son bain
Il faut alors sans maladresse
Agiter jusqu'à c' que l' dessin
De l’image tout à coup se dresse
C’est là la grande précaution
Il faut remuer l’effigie
Pendant toute l’opération
Pour faire une bonne photographie

Le cliché monte, il se maintient
À merveille sur la plaque sensible
Attention, voilà que ça vient
Que ça vient aussi bien qu' possible
Il n' s'agit pas en vérité
Après autant de minutie
D' n'avoir à la fin qu’un raté
En guise de photographie

C’est fini, faut pas s’énerver
L’opération est complète
Il n' reste plus pour le laver
Qu'à mettre l’ cliché dans une cuvette
Et si l’plaisir est sans pareil
Qu'on a pris à toute cette chimie
On recharge son appareil
Pour faire une autre photographie
THE PHOTOGRAPH


Between our fingers we take the picture
And then like Gribouille*,
To avoid its coming in too dry,
In its little bath we wet him.
This is done delicately,
Without shaking, with care,
We begin the development
The development of the photograph

The shot bathing in its bath
We then must without clumsiness
Shake it until the drawing
Of the image suddenly arises
This is the great precaution
We must move the effigy
During the entire operation
To take a good photograph

The picture rises, it holds up
Wonderfully on sensitive plate,
Watch out, here it comes,
It comes as well as possible
No question, really,
After so much meticulousness,
To get in the end only a failure
As a photograph

It's over, don't get upset,
The operation is complete
There is no more left, in order to wash it,
Than to put the picture in a basin
And if the pleasure we took
From all this chemistry is without equal,
We recharge our device
To take another photograph
* Gribouille is originally a popular character who throws himself into the water for fear of the rain.

Recording by Pauline Carton

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