These party songs. “Marguerite” by La Tordue, because you love your child

This winter break, we explore love – all forms of love. Today, declarations of love from fathers to their children.

Dear listeners born after 1998 and who are called Marguerite or Margot, perhaps owe their first name to this song by La Tordue – undoubtedly the most famous of this trio which separated in 2003. But Marguerite was not the daughter of these three musicians; it was Benoît Morel, lyricist and singer of La Tordue who wanted to write the immense emotion of the birth of his first child, which he wanted to remember forever.

Marguerite is not the only child whose birth is greeted with a song from her father. It’s almost a tradition: from 1959 to 2008, Isabelle, Cécile, Laura, Juditth, Zouzou…

In this episode of These party songsyou hear excerpts from:

The Twisted, Daisy, 1998

Jacques Brel, Isabelle, 1959

Claude Nougaro, Cécile my daughter, 1963

Johnny Hallyday, Laura, 1986

Philippe Forcioli, Judith, 1989

Alexis HK, Zouzou, 2008

Renaud, Morgana from you, 1983

Louis Chedid, Matthew Mogodo, 1974

M, Mogodo, 2022

Henri Dikongué, That’s life, 1997

Vianney and Renaud, NOW, 2023

The Twisted, Daisy (in public), 2001

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