Sur le Pont d'Avignon
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“Sur le pont d’Avignon” is a French song about a dance performed on the Pont d’Avignon that dates back to the 15th century. The dance actually took place under the bridge and not on the bridge.
Pont d’Avignon at dusk
Pont d’Avignon and its song
Jean Sablon
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Jean Sablon was a French singer, songwriter, composer and actor. He was one of the first French singers to immerse himself in jazz. The man behind several songs by big French and American names, he wa
Sur le Pont d'Avignon
…while on a day trip to “the old bridge of the song … its four remaining arches soaring out across the green water”. They sing the song “in the style of Jean Sablon,” and the child character tells the adult “the story of St. Benezet who confounded the clerics of Avignon, and built the bridge where the angels had…
Sablon in 1939