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Léon de Bercy
Léon de Bercy by Charles Léandre, 1902.
Born10 December 1857
Paris
Died31 July 1915(1915-07-31) (aged 57)
OccupationChansonnier

Léon de Bercy, called Léon Drouin de Bercy or Léon Hiks[1] (10 December 1857 in Paris – 31 July 1915 in Orléans, aged 57) was a French chansonnier.

A member of the literary club Les Hydropathes [fr], he authored the reference book Montmartre et ses chansons : Poètes et Chansonniers (1902).[2] He also collaborated with Aristide Bruant to L'Argot au XXe siècle. Dictionnaire français-argot.[3]

Songs or monologues

  • Le Milliard congréganiste (1910), satirical dittie, lyrics by Léon de Bercy and V. Tarault, éd. Georges Ondet (cotage GO4396bis)[4]
  • Ne jurez pas aux femmes (c. 1895), dittie, lyrics by Briollet and Hiks, music by Tiska et Del, Répertoire libre.[5] Recorded under the title Illusions fichues ou Ne jurez pas aux femmes, Odéon 238385 (undated)[6]
  • Series Les Refrains de la Butte (1904) under the pseudonym Léon Drouin de Bercy, éd. Plessis :
    • Une drôle de maison,[7]
    • Le Brave Général Oku, fantaisie rosso-japonaise[8]
    • La Cravate à Jean[9]
    • Le Petit Frère à Ferdinand[10]
    • La Vaseline[11]

Works

  • Aristide Bruant (with collaboration of Léon Drouin de Bercy), L'Argot au XXe. Dictionnaire français-argot, Flammarion, Paris, 1901, 457 p.
  • Léon de Bercy, Montmartre et ses chansons : Poètes et Chansonniers, with 5 portraits-charges by Charles Léandre, éd. H. Daragon, Paris, 1902 (available on Gallica)

Sources

  • Dix ans de bohème on wikisource
  • Émile Goudeau, Dix ans de bohème, Henry du Parc, Paris, 1888 – Reprint under the direction of Michel Golfier and Jean-Didier Wagneur (with coll. of Patrick Ramseyer), Champvallon, 2000, 573 p.

References

  1. ^ Notice BNF. His pseudonyms are known thanks to the annotated reissue of Dix ans de bohème by M. Golfier and J.-D; Wagneur (cf. sources).
  2. ^ Notice BNF
  3. ^ Notice BNF
  4. ^ Notice BNF
  5. ^ "After Devriès and Lesure" according to BNF notice.
  6. ^ Notice BNF
  7. ^ Notice BNF
  8. ^ Notice BNF
  9. ^ Notice BNF
  10. ^ Notice BNF
  11. ^ Notice BNF