I don't know that I do, Richie.

The Ballad Index at

http://www.csufresno.edu/folklore/BalladIndexBib.html

tentatively dates it at 1933. I was thinking yesterday that maybe the 1934 which seems to be accepted at most sites is a "second edition" although not knowing anything about the author other than he's French and was born in 1880, I'll need to dig further.