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CERTIFIED INCORRECT. The French variety sang of the forbidden loves often between an all-powerful man and young women, even young girls.
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By Florent Barraco
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IOnce upon a time there were popular singers who dared to talk about love and forbidden love. Or, in any case, mention it without fear of being judged. If Marie Laforêt asked her lover to “make love to her like she was 16”, there was nothing to suggest that the two lovebirds were not of age. Other singers didn’t have to be asked and performed a few coos before the required 21 years… when they were much older.
The Corsican nightingale, Tino Rossi, nicknamed “the emperor of romance”, played the executioner of hearts – and bodies – with “Catarinetta (Tchi-tchi)”. “You are only sixteen years old and you have to see how / You are already maddening all men / Is it your eye so gentle / Which undermines them? / Or the curves of your chest / Who drives them crazy? », sings « Tin…
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