Partons, la mer est belle
Il ne s'attendait pas À y trouver la mort
A sad sea song with a soothing melody. Began as French but now is widely known in French-speaking Canada as well.
Imperative Mood
Forms & Environments of the Imperative
Forms of the Imperative; Use with pronoun objects; the Third-Person Imperative; and Yet Other Matters Imperative.
Les enfants s’ennuient le dimanche
Le dimanche, les enfants s’ennuient
A wonderful song expressing the same sentiment as Camus’s Meurseult: Je n’aime pas le dimanche.
Notre Père
Pardonne-nous nos offenses
The Our Father in the version currently used in the RC liturgy in French. (Official from December 3 2017: a slight change to petition 6.)
Il était un petit navire
Empêche-les de me manger!
The best of all children’s songs, full of drama, pathos, piety, humor, and with a rousing rhythm. On top of all which, it is neverending.
Au clair de la lune
Ouvrez votre porte, Pour le dieu d'amour
The arch-typical traditional French song, recounting the nocturnal adventures of Pierrot, Lubin, and an unnamed third person.
La Marseillaise
Pour qui ces ignobles entraves, / Ces fers dès longtemps préparés?
France’s stirring national anthem. Its “us versus them” sentiment can be (and has been) put to use in a multitude of situations.
