Francoise Hardy, Jacques Dutronc, a major love story, a long time ago in a seventies Paris: the whole car, the tobacco bars, the little white at the counter, the pinball machines which “tilt”, the jukeboxes and the popular songs in loop and in the early morning a thick “fog in the rue Corvisart”. Francoise remembers, she didn’t like the song and Jacques was already irritating her.
“Always the same, same cobblestones, same memories, same distress, same address”… “Brouillard dans la rue Corvisart” was released in 1978, Gabriel Yared composed it and a certain Michel Jonasz writes the lyrics.
The voices of Hardy and Dutronc harmonize in the “Fog in the rue Corvisart”, nothing but flashing signs and lights, not the slightest little love story in this banal street of the 13th arrondissement as there are so many in Paris, and even Jean Nicolas Corvisart, the great Napoleon’s personal doctor, can do nothing to cure spleen and melancholy.