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Georges Brassens would have been 100 years old on Friday October 22. For the occasion, the 20 Hours of France 2 returns to “Chanson pour l’Auvergnat”, one of its legendary titles.
Georges Brassens is a monument of French music. He wrote his legend through songs that marked several generations. Among they Song for Auvergnat is a hymn that represents the artist well. During the winter of 1954, a great cold fell on France, Abbé Pierre called for solidarity in the country. Georges Brassens is touched by the situation. After fleeing the Germans and forced labor, he had been collected in 1944 in a dead end of 14th arrondissement of Paris by a couple from Auvergne of Seine-et-Marne.
In the song, it is therefore to those who collected it that he refers when he mentions the Auvergnat who gave him “gave four pieces of wood when, in my life, it was cold” and the hostess who gave him “four pieces of bread when in my life, he was hungry”. He decides to compose this song like a waltz, a musical writing that he will adopt again in the rest of his career. The Song for the Auvergnat has also been taken up in several languages such as Hebrew or Spanish.