NEWS.
Aurore Bergé, the Minister of Solidarity and Families, announced Thursday, July 27, on the set of “4 Truths” of France 2, the creation of a “colos pass” from 2024. It will concern, ” approximately 80% of children”. This pass will be “endowed with 200 to 350 euros per child and will allow you to send your child to summer camp thanks to the CAF”she assured.
For decades, summer camps have enabled millions of children to discover the pleasures of the sea or the countryside and to make friends their own age. Unforgettable moments that Pierre Perret immortalized in his evocatively titled song, Pretty summer camps.
THE SONG.
Written and composed in 1966, Pierre Perret likes to say that it was created in two days. It was to become his first success, the one that would open the doors to fame for him. If this title has become a classic of French song, its reception was more than mixed when it was released. In his text, the singer putting himself in the shoes of a kid freshly sent “in camp”, wrote a letter to his parents describing his daily life where resourcefulness prevailed over supervision, with a lot of words in slang.
« Pretty summer camps
Thank you mom, thank you dad
Every year, I want it to start again
You kaidi aidi aida
I’m writing you a little stammer
So that you don’t worry
Here, we are on the small onions
I’m only eight years old, but I manage… »
Taken at face value, the lyrics sparked controversy. The First Lady, Yvonne de Gaulle, shocked by the phrase ” peeing in the sink », will itself intervene with the director of France Inter to stop its broadcast. The song will be censored for six months.
It is this controversial, but nevertheless delightful, title that we invite you to discover at the top of the article. We are on September 29, 1966 in the program “Le Palmarès des chansons” and Pierre Perret performs it for the first time in public.
2023-07-29 04:13:02
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