alanabit - yer most welcome; I had the info only because my Francophone wife is a huge Brel fan from way back & has lists of everything he ever wrote. :) While not feeling as vehemently as you do about "The Impossible Dream", I'd say the French translation as sung by Brel has to be better than the original---if only because it's *sung by Brel*. Il etait magnifique.