"At Espérance, it's the bistro of captains and sailors/quartermasters/admirals... After whistling our chance, we all come back to Espérance."
Standing or sitting on a crate installed on a wooden platform, François Morel sings the texts of a certain Yves-Marie Le Guilvinec at the Théâtre du Rond-Point, in Paris.
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His name means nothing to anyone.
He is a sailor and poet who was born in Trigavou south of Dinard, in the Côtes-d'Armor, in 1870 and died at sea in 1900, at the age of 30.
Happy chance: the actor found a damaged brochure,
La Cancalaise
, dating from 1894 and including twelve songs illustrated by the author, in a garage sale in Saint-Lunaire (Ille-et-Vilaine).
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The ex-Deschiens has teamed up with Gérard Mordillat and his faithful accomplice Antoine Sahler to develop a joyful "conference-sung" around the cod fisherman who swore that with
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.
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All sailors are singers
, the album (Little Big…
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