The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #400   Message #62931
Posted By: Wotcha
13-Mar-99 - 11:46 PM
Thread Name: Req/ADD: French folk songs
Subject: RE:
The Singing Nun (who popularized Dominique) was a French speaking Belgian (hence Walloon). I seem to recall that she died an inauspicious death in mid 1980s amid some sad controversy (at least according to the Belgians I knew). She helped get Debbie Reynolds out of a career doldrum. Walloon French uses a more logical system of counting: no quatre vingts-dixs or soixante-dixs (nonante for 90 and septante for 70). 5 trivia points. Cheers, Brian