Homegrown French music isn't limited to pop, rock, or even more traditional chanson these days.

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Tests with 45 different mice produced similar results, although each mouse had its distinct chanson.

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The Tastevin tune is a traditional Burgundy chanson, while the Commanderie song, "Toujours Bordeaux, " is a more recent work.

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"My fundamental reason for writing songs was based on my conviction that the French chanson had insipid lyrics, " Aznavour said.

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They make a gleeful racket, smashing together French chanson, American garage rock, and Beatle-esque pop, with Casio keyboard vamps and quirky computer sampling.

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Reviving Berlin's wicked burlesque heyday, this is the place to experience caberet and chanson in the sensational Mirror Tent, which itself dates back to 1920s.

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Over the years, France has produced some remarkable music, from the emotive chanson of Edith Piaf, Serge Gainsbourg's iconoclastic work and the electronic melodicism of the band Air.

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More likely, it was the shakeup that Gainsbourg inflicted on the tradition of the chanson, which the movie has little time to explore, and which would, in any case, be hard for outsiders to grasp.

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