It's a bit late to follow up on this, but (open mike:) "Parlez-moi d'amour" was written by Jean Lenoir, who was French, not French-Canadian.

I looked up the words to it some time ago because a couple of lines were (mis)quoted in Arthur Koestler's _Age of Longing_. I was startled by the news that it is a waltz, and looked up a couple of performances on the Web (I had never heard the tune). It is true that the refrain is in 3/4 time, but the rest is irregular in meter, and it's hard to imagine anyone waltzing to it.

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    Across the street the woman was now singing full blast:

      "Parlez-moi d'amour
      Dites-moi [sic] des choses tendres..."

    To judge by the voice she must have been an elderly, wispy-haired charwoman, probably engaged in sweeping the dust and the cigarette stumps from the threadbare carpet down under the cupboard, where they could not be seen, only smelled.
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