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Word: bonjour (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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With her eyes closed ecstatically, she gave them Hymne à l'Amour; then her gallant song of the Foreign Legion, Le Fanion de la Légion. By the time she had gotten through her prayerful Bonjour Monsieur Saint-Pierre and the piquant one that Piaf partisans will walk miles to hear -her own composition, La Vie en Rose, this time with a chorus in English-the fans were pounding their hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: La Vie en Rose | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

Today her most popular song is Bonjour Monsieur Saint-Pierre, about a young Parisian girl who, having died, pleads at the gates of heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Paris Sparrow | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

...Says Bonjour les Demoiselles: There's always happiness when there's love. Chorus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: French Wartime Songs | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...Bonjour les d'moiselles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: French Wartime Songs | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

Authors of Bonjour les Demoiselles are Private Roger Bernstein, 28, a pianist for Music Publisher Salabert (one of the jurors), and Jean Vogade, 48, pianist to Tenor Tino Rossi. The Gamelin song was concocted by Jean Rodor, 58, veteran of World War I and a professional librettist, and Corporal Paul Durand, 32, composer of a French hit song, Tell Me That You Love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: French Wartime Songs | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

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