Songs of the Seine floods

The river is very high in the capital: this invites us to listen again to how the artists sing about this city when it fears the flood.

I’m sorry, dear listeners in the region – and in the flood zone. The song is not always very specific about the territory where you are. On the other hand, it is enough for the Seine to rise a little, and hop a song

Well, I’m exaggerating, there aren’t that many songs about the floods in Paris. But it is often good authors who tackle this subject – here, it is Thomas Fersen who sees a woman crying and who, consequently, sees the river rising, which threatens the bridges of Paris, and obviously the zouave , this dear Zouave from the Pont de l’Alma.

In the first episode of These songs that make the news this weekend you hear excerpts from:

Thomas Fersen, Do not Cry, 1995

Serge Reggiani, The Zouave of the Alma bridge, nineteen eighty one

Georges Brassens, The Ricochets, 1976

Paul Lack, The Aquatic Plant Garden, 1910

Dionysus, Does Paris shine? 2021

Anne Vanderlove, Rain in Paris, 1967

Paul Anka, Rain in Paris, 1963

Claude Nougaro, A little girl, 1962

Alain Kan, Paris in the rain, 1964

Charles Aznavour, It’s raining, 1956

Thomas Fersen, Do not Cry, 1995

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