Te souviens-tu?
Te souviens-tu? (English: Do You Remember?) is a French song composed in 1817 with lyrics by Émile Debraux and music by Joseph-Denis Doche.[1] A variation was produced by Pierre-Jean de Béranger. It is also known under the title T'en souviens-tu ?. Composed during the Allied Occupation of France following the country's defeat in the Napoleonic Wars, it has a former officer of the Grande Armée run into an old comrade who once saved his life begging in the streets. He sings of the glories once achieved by Napoleon's troops in their past campaigns.
In 1870 a satirical song Paris pour un beefsteak was composed using the same music but different words during the Siege of Paris.[2]
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- Day-Hickman, Barbara Ann. Napoleonic Art: Nationalism and the Spirit of Rebellion in France (1815-1848). University of Delaware Press, 1999.
- Rifkin, Adrian. Communards and Other Cultural Histories: Essays by Adrian Rifkin. BRILL, 2016.
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