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Thread #121083 Message #3977544
Posted By: GUEST
18-Feb-19 - 06:56 AM
Thread Name: ADD: french folk song about Normandy-Ma Normandie
Subject: RE: ADD: french folk song about Normandy-Ma Normandie
@Tattie Bogle
Cap Gris Nez isn't in Normandy, I'm afraid, and it's a good 135 kilometres to Le Tréport, which is at the nearest point of the province.
Otherwise, I think all the lyrics quoted here are free translations of Ma Normandie, composed in 1836 by one Frédéric Bérat. Normans get all weepy when they're singing it on a bellyful of cider, pommeau or calvados.