Like all great poets, he drew from a multitude of sources, many of which had sunk into more or less profound oblivion. He studied the poems of the medieval troubadours of the south of France, where he was born in 1921, read the works of Guillaume IX of Aquitaine, François Villon, Rabelais and Verlaine, mixed with the formal rectitude of classical poetry the verdant Parisian slang, whose anarchist humor he loved as much as he admired its linguistic creativity and was inspired by it.
Raw eroticism and generosity
He mocked the bourgeoisie and all forms of authority, boxed the clergy and their verses, offended the prudish and well-meaning with his raw eroticism and composed declarations of love on a chain: to women, young and old, to the proletarians and the low-income earners, to the rankless and the exploited, to the candid and the naive, to the resourceful and the disciples of common sense, and to all those in whom friendship, fidelity, solidarity and compassion do not are not empty words.
He could evoke the regrets of a life badly lived, ruined in the air, or gone too quickly, the love gone, the happiness sacrificed, the missed opportunity, all that belonged to the past and would never return.
Venerated in France
Like all great poets, he knew how to touch hearts to the point of pain. For all these reasons, Georges Brassens is revered and admired, celebrated and loved in France.
As his translator says [allemand]Gisbert Haefs, today there are around fifty French streets, squares, libraries, theaters and parks that bear the name of the singer, as well as 149 schools or training establishments.
Reinhard Mey, Hannes Wader, Franz Josef Degenhardt, Dieter Süverkrüp and all the German songwriters who were influenced by Brassens willingly surrender to the obvious (not without envy)
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