If you are, how shall I put this,of a certain âge, then the words ‘ Tous les garçons et les filles’ may bring back du temps perdu. Why? If you respond to the phrase by qu’est-ce que c’est? then maybe you should cherchez la femme – this sweet and naive song, a cri de coeur, is a chanson by Françoise Hardy, sung with complete sang-froid. She was a singer á la mode in France and also in England in the sixties. She was by no means a femme fatale, and although young when success first came to her, she was certainly not an enfant terrible, au contaire, she was seen as being sweet and perhaps shy… which in real life she was.
En passant, she was married to another French singer, Jacques Dutronq. Despite the rather melancholy song ‘Tous les garçons’, which she wrote, there was a certain joie de vivre about her – especially, so I understand, as perceived by teenage English boys at the time… in fact for them she was a young woman par excellence, French and mysterious. She was very beautiful, with very long straight hair and a heavy fringe, the fringe being de rigueur back then.
So, voilà (actually another song by Françoise) but voilà! Here is ‘Tous les garçons’:
http://http://youtu.be/0aLoezucIzk
Lois Elsden 