Je t’aimais, je t’aime, je t’aimerai. What a pity if you can not understand and instead choose to disparage the beauty of our language. Think about how much of our english language comes from French… more than comes from German. Je t’aimais!

From my POV that is a weird statement. Why?
Much of the world does doesn’t understand English.

No, Gringo. There are certain venues where interesting things can exist outside of English, but they are few and far between… music is one of them. If a performer has never done anything in English, then they’ve never done anything for an international audience, and, therefore, knowledge of them is not an inherent sign of “cool”.

There can be individual examples to the contradiction of that, but, for the most part, no… if you’re not doing it in English AT ALL, then you’re only playing to the home team.

Courtesy of My Sister the French Student, I recall listening to Jacqueline Francois. My sister heard her in French class, and got her hands on an album.

The Continental European singer that I was most aware of during that era was the Spanish singer Rafael, courtesy of time spent in Mexico.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fx5_iOrq3I Jacqueline Francois sings “Mademoiselle de Paris.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M_ZdI8Lr9g Rafael sings “Cuando Tu No Esté¡s.” [When You Aren’t Here]

Wasn’t this aspect of human nature explored quite thoroughly — and comically — by William Shakespeare in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”?

I agree that she’s quite a beauty. That I have never heard of her until now makes me feel even more under-educated than I usually do.

1) She sings only in French, near as I can see. That doesn’t play all that well outside France, and even less so outside Europe.

2) Her singing style is … I dunno, “boring” is what comes to mind. All harmony and melody, no rhythm, at least in the half-dozen songs I randomly played. To each their own, of course, but, after the 60s this style hasn’t generally played well in the USA for sure, and even IN the 60s it was still more for the folk-song crowd.

}}} Puzzling, isn’t it? Or maybe it’s not, not at all.

No, women as a group tend to be idiots when it comes to their triage process for men. I honestly do think the worst thing that happened to both sexes was when the process got taken out of the hands of the matrons of society and put into the women’s hands. While the matrons didn’t pick for love, today’s woman cluelessly triages for seducers, and imagines it’s love. Then the seducers get bored (hey, they’re seducers… DUHHH!), then they fool around, and… of course, it’s that ALL men screw around. Not just the ones you SELECT FOR!!

To take any of the blame for bad choices … well, few women ever consider that option.

:-S

The other issue (likely the case for Francoise) is that she confused coldness with “playing hard to get”. She confused “hard to get” with just plain “hard”. Some guy that doesn’t seem all that interested in you may just not be interested in anyone. For whatever reason — Narcissism, Lack of sexual drive at all (Neuter-sexual), or even homosexuality would look the same if you’re not wise enough (or smart enough, take your pick) to verify which of those it is.