“The chanson became history: it donned defiantly the Phrygian bonnet, and marched in the forefront.... Men went singing to the guillotine.”
Henri Avenel.
“It is certain that the chanson is, like wine, a product of our soil, a flower of la patrie.”—Jules Claretie.
“And I send these words to Paris with my love, And I guess some chansonniers there will understand them.” Walt Whitman.
