Francoise Hardy brushed Jagger off! You made my day. Hardy was quite crushable.

Now that I’ve been listening to French music, I can hear its influence on British and American music, though for the latter, only as far as the Northeast.

PA+Cat:

In 1967 the Stones did “Back Street Girl,” an acoustic ballad, describing a similar situation, only from the viewpoint of the upper-class Brit.
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Don’t want you part of my world
Just you be my back street girl

–Rolling Stones, “Back Street Girl” (1967)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N–7J-pYoi4
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I wonder if Mick Jagger was influenced by Piaf’s song. It was one of her later hits (1959) so I imagine he would have heard it.

“Back Street Girl” even has an accordion like “Milord,” though not the same honky-tonk feel. I can’t think of any other Stones songs with accordion.

I have heard Piaf including “Non, je ne regrette rien.” While she is clearly magnificent, hers is a different sound than I’m currently fixating on. I will get to her. She was small in stature but a giant in the French chanteuse tradition.

I do appreciate her hyper-distinct pronunciation and lord, those French Rs! I’m trying to figure those out and the French negatives.

Historical note: there was a famous French diplomat, spy, and soldier of the 18th century who “retired” and lived the rest of his life as if he were a woman.

https://www.history.co.uk/article/the-life-of-the-chevalier-deon-europes-first-transgender-person
(Superficial, and marred by the use of the abominable first-person “they” along with continued reliance on debunked accounts of D’Eon’s spying in Russia as a female.)

Oddly, Wikipedia’s more accurate article is relatively pronominally restrained, for the leftist site.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevalier_d%27%C3%89on

“Piaf dedicated his recording to the Foreign Legion. Indeed at the time of the recording, France was engaged in the Algerian War (1954–1962). The Legion, which followed the putsch of the generals of April 21, 1961 against General de Gaulle, adopted the song at this time. The song remains popular at the Legion. It has also been taken up as an anthem by supporters of French Algeria.”

A lot of people have asked, and I think some are groping toward the same conclusion that AesopSpouse gave me this morning:
There was a great worry at Biden Inc., well-founded, that some kind of incriminating documents reflecting Joe’s connections to Hunter’s business deals were in among Joe’s documents.
The lawyers, if encountering those, could dispose of them discretely, and would be protected by attorney-client privilege from speaking about what they found.
AFAIK, there are not yet any subpoenas out that would make their destruction illegal on the face.
However, destroying classified documents IS illegal (even if your name is Clinton).
Without an iron-clad belief that there was zero possibility that their actions would ever be discovered (and nothing is iron-clad in politics, even for Democrats), they weren’t willing to take that long a fall for Biden.

Now, leaking the discovery to the press about the documents after the elections is a totally different kettle of rotten apples.

The only time he’s been held to account was in the last century, when his plagiarism and his outright lies about scholarships and athletic accomplishments and class standings were called out by the Mainstream Media. Not his colleagues, not his Party – the Press, back when they still had at least some shreds of respectability. Of course – that was then, and this is now.

So it’s not surprising that the big reveal about the Biden Papers seems to carry an implied gravitas that is bigger than the simple story. With Trump, it’s all hot air that will die out tomorrow, the Crisis of the Century, of the week. But with Biden, the simple fact that it’s being reported at all, with the Legacy MSM such as it is, a mouthpiece of the Powers That Be – well, that’s significant isn’t it? Maybe Joey’s being given the message that his Pay Back is paid back in full.