# Il est jaloux - looking for a French song

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 10, 2004, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/il-est-jaloux-looking-for-a-french-song/259138 "2004-08-10T02:20:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![WeRSauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f19dbf/32.png) [@WeRSauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WeRSauron)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2004, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/il-est-jaloux-looking-for-a-french-song/259138/1 "2004-08-10T02:20:40Z")

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I’m looking for a song I sung back in high school choir that I cannot find for the life of me.

The song is in French, and is about a woman whose husband gets jealous (“il est jaloux”) when she goes to the market because she’s more beautiful than him. The chorus is something like, “I have a secret, but I won’t tell it” (“je le ne dirai pas”).

Does this sound remotely familiar to anyone?

WRS - Je ne suis pas jaloux. Je m’apelle WRS. A biento^t! (Je ne parls pas franciase. Je parls seulement anglais et espagnol et urdu et hindi et un peau de allemagne et rus.)

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**Author:** ![WeRSauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f19dbf/32.png) [@WeRSauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WeRSauron)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2004, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/il-est-jaloux-looking-for-a-french-song/259138/2 "2004-08-10T03:27:47Z")

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The song might be in creole or an older form of French.

Darn. I hate it when I have something in my head but can’t get it all.

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**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2004, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/il-est-jaloux-looking-for-a-french-song/259138/3 "2004-08-10T08:23:44Z")

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[http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/get\_text.html?TextId=640](http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=640)

[http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/love-in-the-arts/renaissance.html](http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/love-in-the-arts/renaissance.html)

Just a guess.

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**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2004, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/il-est-jaloux-looking-for-a-french-song/259138/4 "2004-08-10T10:21:13Z")

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The French have only every produced two songs fit for an international market:

Bizet’s _L’Amour est un Oiseau Rebel_

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Jordy’s _Dur Dur Etre Bebe_

O.K. There might be a few others, but dur dur to think of them right now. 😛

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**Author:** ![Estilicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Estilicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Estilicon)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2004, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/il-est-jaloux-looking-for-a-french-song/259138/5 "2004-08-10T10:26:41Z")

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Bienville my personal favourite (not counting operas) is “Et moi dans mon coin” by Charles Aznavour. It’s also about a jelous husband but, this time, he has good reasons to be so.

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**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2004, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/il-est-jaloux-looking-for-a-french-song/259138/6 "2004-08-10T11:23:04Z")

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> [@Estilicon](#):
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> “Et moi dans mon coin” by Charles Aznavour

I really should check out some Aznavour- **Shoot the Piano Player** is one of my favorite movies and I liked the songs he did in that. I also enjoyed his appearance in **The Truth About Charlie**.

Now if Aznavour were to record a version of _Dur Dur Etre Bebe_ . . .

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**Author:** ![WeRSauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f19dbf/32.png) [@WeRSauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WeRSauron)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2004, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/il-est-jaloux-looking-for-a-french-song/259138/7 "2004-08-10T15:29:37Z")

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Thank you so much, **eunoia**! That’s it!

I guess they had an edited version for us to sing in high school. But this is the song! Yay!

WRS