“Revoir Paris” has never fallen into the oblivion of time, as proof of this very nice adaptation of Benjamin Biolay 75 years after the first performance by Charles Trénet.
At the beginning of the 1930s, Trénet left Narbonne at the age of 18 and, according to the established expression, “went up to Paris”. He threw himself into journalism, advertising, cinema, but it was in the music hall that he finds his way.
Trénet becomes a huge star, first in duet with Johnny Hess then solo, prolix, Charles will write more than 500 songs including his “Revoir Paris”, and as soon as he comes to sing in the capital between two provincial or world tours, he always starts his Parisian recitals by this song.
The story is known but the following archive is unpublished. It was while returning by plane after a tour of America and Canada that Charles Trénet had the idea of writing this song. Document, the mother of the madman singingMarie Louise Trénet evokes in the 50s “Revoir Paris”.
Trenet Classic among about forty hits, “Revoir Paris”, idealized poetry, close to the Portuguese “saudades” where joyful melancholy and the certain hope of seeing his mother again in a small suburban house, not far from Paris, behind the Bois de Vincennes are mixed. An unstoppable song!