BTW, this is slightly off-topic, but I've recently been listening to the Beatles song "She's Leaving Home", which is also based on a
true story about a teenage runaway, and as I listened to it I thought of this song. Even though one is first the girls in both songs are freer away from home than they are at home. I think that in a way, "L'Annee Passee" can be seen as a Creole take on the theme of "She's Leaving Home."