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Past Tenses in Song: Fugain’s “Une Belle Histoire”

August 10, 2010
By Rachel
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Michel Fugain’s 1972 song “Une Belle Histoire” has become a classic ballad of summer vacation, travel, and youth. The musical style is pretty dated, but that only adds to the kitchy fun of the song. It also happens to use several forms of the past tense, so I created one of my signature fill-in-the-blanks...Read more »

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Music: Claude François’s “Comme d’habitude” and Pronominal Verbs

June 18, 2010
By Rachel
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Most students will recognize the melody of “Comme d’habitude” because it is that of “My Way,” but few will know that the song made famous by Sinatra is actually a remake of the French song by Claude François. The original song shares no lyrical content with the English version: it’s a song about one...Read more »

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