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Requiem pour le Soldat Inconnu

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Primary Languages: 
French
Languages: 
French
Locations: 
France
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Bonheur presents his own evocation of World War I.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Master is a dub of a 12-inch, 33⅓ rpm phonograph record, Decca stereo 100.068, lent to the LLA by Mr. Dunn; JJT, rec. eng., 2/25/72.
Contributor: 
Bonheur, Gaston

Georges Brassens: album No. 2

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Primary Languages: 
French
Languages: 
French
Locations: 
France
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Brassens sings his own songs: “Les amoureux des bancs publics”, “Brave Margot”, “Pauvre Martin”, “La première fille”, “La cane de Jeanne”, “Je suis un voyou”, “J’ai rendez-vous avec vous”, “Le vent”, “Il n’y a pas d’amour heureux”, “La mauvaise herbe”, “Le mauvais sujet repenti” and “Putain de toi”.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Master was dubbed from an (unidentified) phonograph record lent to the LLA; JJT, rec. eng., 10/17/70.
Contributor: 
Brassens, Georges

Georges Brassens: album no. 4

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Primary Languages: 
French
Languages: 
French
Locations: 
France
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Georges Brassens sings his own songs: “Je me suis fait tout petit”, “L’amandier”, “Oncle Archibald”, “La marche nuptiale”, “Les lilas”, “Au bois de mon coeur”, “Grand-père”, Celui qui a mal tourné”, “Le vin”, and “Les philistins” ; Dutronc sings his own songs: “L’hostesse de l’air”, “La paresse”, “Où est-il l’ami Pierrot”, and “L’amour est le moteur du monde” ; France Gall sings her own songs: “Les années folles”, “Soleil au coeur”, “La manille de la Révolution” and “Les quatres éléments”
Collection Technical Notes: 
Master was dubbed from a phonograph record lent to the LLA; JJT, rec. eng., 9/28/70.
Contributor: 
Brassens, Georges

Albert Camus reading from his novels and essays

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Subject Languages: 
French
Primary Languages: 
French
Languages: 
French
Locations: 
France
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Camus reads excerpts from La chute, La peste, L'étranger and L'été.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Master is a dub of the Caedmon disc TC-1138 released in 1960 and lent to the LLA; JJT, rec. eng., 1970.
Contributor: 
Camus, Albert

Paysage sous la lune en Amérique

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Primary Languages: 
French
Languages: 
French
Locations: 
France
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Native speaker (male) recites this prose passage.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Phonograph record is the 10-inch, 78 rpm, monophonic lacquer His Master's Voice disc, cat. no. B.9547. Note: The damage to the first few grooves rules out digitizing this disc. (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection)
Contributor: 
Stéphan, (Monsieur) E.M.

Théâtre de toujours: Jean Cocteau: “Anna la bonne”

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Primary Languages: 
French
Languages: 
French
Locations: 
France
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Theatre de Toujours: Jean Cocteau: various works of Cocteau are performed.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Master was dubbed from the first two discs of a three-record, 33⅓ rpm, stereo set, EMI/Pathé C 161-113.11 & .12, lent to the LLA by Mr. Dunn; JJT, rec. eng., 5/14/73.
Contributor: 
Oswald, Marianne

Stories by Colette

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Primary Languages: 
French
Languages: 
French
Locations: 
France
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Colette reads “Portrait de Sido”, and a professional actor reads “La main”, “Poum”, and “La maison de Claudine”.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Master is a dub of a phonograph record, Philips S76.721 R, lent to the LLA; John E. Wahl, rec. eng., 4/21/65.
Contributor: 
Colette and unidentified speaker

Les frères Karamazov [excerpts] (from the record album: Scènes du Théâtre de Boulevard)

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Primary Languages: 
French
Languages: 
French
Locations: 
France
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Jouvet recreates two scenes from the play: 1) Act II, scene 4, and 2) Act III, scene 6.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Tape is a dub off a 33⅓ rpm phonograph record, entitled “Scènes du Théâtre de Boulevard”, lent to the LLA; JJT, rec. eng., c. 1972. The 33 ⅓ rpm cut entered here is, in turn, a re-issue of recording(s) made in 1933.
Contributor: 
Jouvet, Louis

Du Bellay: Seven poems

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Primary Languages: 
French
Languages: 
French
Locations: 
France
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Two professional actors from the Comédie-Française recite seven selected poems from the works of Joachim du Bellay.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Phonograph record is a Pléiade disc, No. P. 31. There is a dittoed sheet of the recording script tucked into the record sleeve. (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection)
Contributor: 
Falcon, André; and Paul-Emile Deiber

Edith Piaf: but not forgotten!

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Primary Languages: 
French
Languages: 
French
Locations: 
France
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Reissue of classic Piaf recordings of the 1930s and ’40s
Collection Technical Notes: 
Master was dubbed from a phonograph record lent to the LLA by Mr. Dunn; JJT, rec. eng., c. 1972.
Contributor: 
Piaf, Edith