It is 10 a.m. and the horses of the Republican Guard have just returned from the recovery.
On the first floor of the Célestins district in Paris, hoofbeats gave way to the voices of the French Army choir, with at least as much intensity.
On the rehearsal program this Friday morning:
Hello Dolly
!
, from the musical by Gene Kelly, and
Jul, jul, stralande jul
, a classic Swedish Christmas carol.
For the first, the choir attacks as one man, accompanied on the piano, and it fuses nicely.
The second song visibly gives the 40 singers more trouble - if only for the slightly exotic pronunciation.
"We pronounce yul and not jul, the A is O and all the R's are rolled"
, tells them the choir director, Émilie Fleury.
Very useful details that everyone hastens to note in pencil on their score.
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