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Malivone
Thu, 12/02/2015 - 13:25
Merci beaucoup pour votre traduction... Que dis-je ? Un véritable commentaire historico-linguistique de l'une des plus belle chanson de Ferrat !
Je vous donnerais bien 5 étoiles, mais je ne suis pas suffisamment compétente en anglais pour en juger. En tout cas, pour moi, c'est parfait ! ;)
À bientôt,
cyr22
Wed, 11/11/2015 - 10:56
First, thank you for your suggestions :)
For V4, I do prefer "five years old children" as a formulation...which made me realize I had forgotten "old" so thanks
For V2, could you be more explicit please ? I could not find an occurrence of "arc" existing as a verb, yet "courbe" here is the verb, not the noun
Thank you anyway
differentpolice
Sat, 25/06/2016 - 08:41
I know that in French, 'trente-six' is used idiomatically to mean any large number (like English 'umpteen' or 'however many'), but in this context -- "36 to 68" -- don't you think it refers to the Front Populaire of 1936 -- France's only, and short-lived, Communist government?
cyr22
Fri, 10/03/2017 - 15:15
It's very possible :) ! Thank you, it is one of my 5-6 favourite ones from Ferrat and I had never thought of it this way :) ! This single line is really rich in terms of historical reference ;)
Still, to be fair, it was a time when socialist and communist parties were far closer that they are now, so we might say that Front Populaire was more globally left-wing than truly communist. It was less distinctive than now at least ^^
Torpedo23
Sun, 13/06/2021 - 06:44
@cyr22
Footnotes appreciated, though they might be easier to access and read if better formatted (see the "adding footnotes" section here https://lyricstranslate.com/en/faq#faq62)
(1) "morte saison" is usually translated as "off season" but I thought it was too prosaic here and didn't reflect the author's intention
(2) Provence, Brittany and Ardèche are french cultural and administrative regions/departments
(3) Victor Hugo, among the greatest and most famous french writers in History
(4) Adolphe Thiers was a president under the 3rd French republic and is historically considered, at least in popular culture, to be responsible for the bloody repression of the Paris Commune in May 1871
(5) Paul Eluard, famous french poet from the early 20th century, a major member of the dadaist and surrealist artistic movements
(6) Because in French the word is the same for "story" and "history", the author switches in this verse from one meaning to the other
(7) As the author talks about the working classes' bravery here, it could be assumed that he evokes L'Humanité (lit. The Mankind ), the press organ of French communist party, as Ferrat himself was a supporter of it, though he never was an official member
(8 ) litteral translation would be "on the day after's wall" but I didn't like the sound of it
(9 ) subtle pun using several linguistic and historical concepts : "to see stars" translates as "voir 36 chandelles " (lit. "to see thirty-six candles" ); sixty-eight arguably refers to May 1968, month historically renowned for having seen the biggest social contestation movement in France since the end of WW II ; and the author uses the tradition of birthday candles to mean that the France he belongs to has a wide variety of ages