Mogette et le Bungalow de Clemenceau Part 1

What is your Langue de Coeur
The language of your heart?
Le français ou l'anglais?
Travel avec Mogette
to Le Bungalow de Clemenceau
And essayez un mix heureux
Une entente cordiale...
 des deux...

Mogette La Deux-Chevaux Coquette
A charming Citroën Two Cee Vee
(Spécialiste of mauvaise poésie)
...Made in Levallois-Perret, Paris
In Nineteen Seventy-Three...

Dimanche dernier did voyage
From her garage in Le Bocage
To La Côte Vendéenne
Seaside paysage...

Driving through  the forest of La Chaize
Le Vicomte
Mogette, très à l'aise
Was toute contente
And said to her propriétaire:

Look Proprio!
At the lines of clochettes
(En anglais: bluebells)
Of purple Vendée orchidées
And white asparagussy flowers
Les Anglo-speakers call
Asphodels
(In French, asphodèles)

"Oui, oui Proprio!"
Dixit Mogette
"Oui, oui, le printemps explose
En poésie et prose"
Do not forget

Les Anciens Grecs, for sure
Called asphodels
La fleur des Morts...

And Leonard Cohen
Wrote of them
In his première anthologie
Of poésie..."

"Merci, Mogette my dear"
Répondit le conducteur
Now can we concentrate on the road ahead
And forget what Leonard-bloody-Cohen said
Or look at Les Clochettes instead..?

De toute façon
And anyway
It was not long before une arrivée...

At St Vincent sur Jard
And there and then our little car...

Visited a nineteen-twenties bungalow
Which was, from twenty-one to twenty nine
The summer résidence of Clemenceau
How fine!

Yes, you know
Georges Clemenceau
Who was a famous homme politique
Républicain and Humaniste
Orateur, womanizeur, grand sportif
And (with épée or with pistolet)
...Duelliste

Born in Vendée, eighteen forty-one
In a town called Mouilleron
En Pareds.

Well, et alors
His life was full of...colour
...And
Evènements:

Studied to be doctor of Médicine
Just like his grand'père, and his papa before him
Then went up to Gai Paree
And after to...
Les Etats-Unis

It was là-bas, en Amérique
 Over there, outre-Atlantique
That, jeune professeur of Université
He met Mary Plummer, one of his étudiantes
A young lady très... séduisante
Who gave him three children, two girls and a boy...

But their mariage did not end in joy
It did not last...
And Mary was sent home very fast
En bateau à vapeur
En troisième classe...
After her aventure with another...
(The gouvernant of their enfants.)

Click on pic pour une charming visite guidée ...(3 minutes)

Dear Georges did not apply
The same règlements et conditions
To his affaires amoureuses
But, apparemment
It was une autre...affaire
Back then
For une femme to chase after men...

Georges entered la vie politique
 Becoming Maire
Of le dix-huitième arrondissement-Montmartre
Then député, ministre...
And Président du Conseil
Of the Third République

Victoire and Traité de Versailles
Kept him très occupé for a while...
His relations with Lloyd-George
And Woodrow-Wilson, Vittorio Orlando and other Alliés
From La Grande Guerre
Sometimes more Duelliste than Amicales
Et pas toujours Fair-
Play...
(Du moins d'après certains historiens...
américains ou anglais)

Then manoeuvres, démission et pique
And retrait de la vie politique...

click on Mogette or le Tigre for une belle visite en musique (9 minutes)...

Retraite à la française de la classe politique...
Peu classique...
(Du moins à l'époque)

...Voyages to pays exotiques
A passion for l'art oriental...

And, après guerre et traité
A first séjour Estival...

At the Bungalow
In the seaside hameau
... called Bélébat
Now quite chic, you see
With mobilier
From his Château near Paris...

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