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.
Léon de Bercy | |
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 Léon de Bercy by Charles Léandre, 1902. | |
| Born | 10 December 1857 Paris |
| Died | 31 July 1915 (aged 57) |
| Occupation | Chansonnier |
A member of the literary club Les Hydropathes, 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
edit- Le Milliard congréganiste (1910), satirical ditty, lyrics by Léon de Bercy and V. Tarault, éd. Georges Ondet (cotage GO4396bis)[4]
- Ne jurez pas aux femmes (c. 1895), ditty, 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 :
Works
edit- 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
edit- 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
edit- ^ 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).
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