Another couple to recommend: Veronique Gens (Naxos) performs 18 of the songs quite beautifully, and, since she is from the Auvergne, she comes by the dialect natively. Also worth hearing is a recording by Jill Gomez (EMI) from the 1970's. Finally, the very first recordings, by Madeleine Grey (c. 1930) have a unique freshness to them. I agree that Davrath brought a real sense of authenticity to the somgs, which is interesting since she was from the Ukraine, emigrated to Israel, and was not a native French speaker. She was, however, steeped in the folk idiom -- she was well know for her recordings of Russian, Yiddish and Israeli folksongs, in addition to her operatic and other classical performances.