Le petit pain au chocolat – Joe Dassin

The song “Le petit pain au chocolat-Joe Dassin“ will help you enhance your French.
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Dassin was born in New York. His father, Jules Dassin (1911-2008), was an American actor and director of Russian-Polish and Ukrainian Jewish descent, author of works of the so-called “black cinema”. His mother, Beatrice Launer (1913-2005), was a virtuoso violinist of Austro-Hungarian origin. Dassin spent his childhood in New York and Los Angeles; As a child, he accompanied his parents into exile in Europe, victims of the anti-communist policy of Senator Joseph McCarthy.

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Lyrics : Le petit pain au chocolat

French	English
Tous les matins il achetait	Every morning, he used to buy
Son petit pain au chocolat.	his little chocolate roll.
La boulangère lui souriait,	The woman at the bakery smiled at him.
Il ne la regardait pas.	He didn’t look at her.
Et pourtant, elle était belle.	Nonetheless she was beautiful
Les clients ne voyaient qu’elle.	The other customers only saw her
Il faut dire qu’elle était vraiment	You’ve gotta say she was
très croustillante.	Really every bit as tasty
Autant que ses croissants.	As her croissants.
Et elle rêvait mélancolique	And she dreamed sadly
Le soir dans sa boutique	In the evenings in her shop
À ce jeune homme distant	Of the distant young man.
Il était myope voilà tout,	He was short-sighted
Mais elle ne le savait pas	But she didn’t know
Il vivait dans un monde flou	He lived in a blurred world
Où les nuages volaient bas.	Where the clouds flew low
Il ne voyait pas qu’elle était belle	He didn’t see that she was beautiful
Ne savait pas qu’elle était celle	He didn’t know that she
Que le destin lui envoyait à l’aveuglette	that destiny was sending him the blindness
Pour faire son bonheur	to make her happy.
Et la fille qui n’était pas bête	And the girl, who wasn’t stupid
Acheta des lunettes	Bought glasses
À l’élu de son cœur.	For the one of her heart
Dans l’odeur chaude des galettes,	In the hot fragrance of the cakes
Des baguettes et des babas,	And the breads and the tarts
Dans la boulangerie en fête	In the bakery in one party
Un soir on les maria.	One night, they got married.
Tout en blanc, qu’elle était belle!	All in white she was so beautiful
Les clients ne voyaient qu’elle.	The customers only saw her
Et de leur union sont nés des tas de petits gosses,	And from their union were born
Myope comme papa,	Short-sighted like their father
Gambadant parmi les brioches,	Gambolling among the cakes
Se remplissant les poches	Filling up their pockets
De petits pains au chocolat.	with little chocolate rolls
Et pourtant elle était belle	And yet she was beautiful
Les clients ne voyaient qu’elle	The customers only saw her
Et quand on y pense,	And when you think about it
La vie est très bien faite,	Life is very well made
Il suffit de si peu.	It takes as little as
D’une simple paire de lunettes	A simple pair of glasses
Pour rapprocher deux êtres	To bring two people together
Et pour qu’ils soient heureux	And to make them happy