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Thread #34744   Message #894959
Posted By: Mark Cohen
21-Feb-03 - 02:16 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Rue de la Paix / And Mimi
Subject: RE: Help: 'Rue de la Paix'-anyone know this song?
Well, I tried a Google search and struck out, but I did find some interesting tidbits. Did you know that rue de la Paix is the equivalent of Boardwalk in the French version of Monopoly? It's because there are a large number of jewelers and other high quality purveyors on that street, including Cartier and Dunhill. There was also a song called "On the rue de la Paix" that was in the 1937 musical film, "The King and the Chorus Girl"...but that's not the one I'm looking for. (That film, by the way, came out a scant 3 months before King Edward abdicated to marry a commoner, so when it was released in the UK, the title was changed to "Romance is Sacred". And it was co-written by none other than Groucho Marx!) Then there's this delightful poem by Robert Service, The Philistine and the Bohemian. And there's also this poem:

A handsome young bastard named Ray
Was conceived on the Rue de La Paix
According to law
He can name you his ma
But as for his Pa, je ne sais


Anyway, I hope somebody can identify the song. I have work to do.

Aloha,
Mark