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"The Poor People of Paris" is a popular song, with "Paris" being pronounced as "pa-REE".
It was adapted by Jack Lawrence in 1954 from the French language song "La goualante du pauvre Jean" ("The Ballad of Poor John") (words by René Rouzaud, music by Marguerite Monnot[1]). The title arises in part from a misinterpretation of the French title, as "pauvre Jean" was taken for the same-sounding "pauvre gens," which translates as "poor people."

Aurora Chanson - La Goualante du Pauvre Jean (The Poor People Of Paris)

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"The Windmills of Your Mind" (Les Moulins de Mon Cœur) is a song with music by Michel Legrand, as well as Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman, and lyrics by the Bergmans, from the 1968 film The Thomas Crown Affair. Noel Harrison performed the song for the film score. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1968.

Dusty Springfield's version of the song is also well known; this version reached #31 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and #3 on the Billboard adult contemporary chart in 1969.

"Les Moulins de Mon Cœur" (The Windmills of Your Mind)
Music by Michel Legrand
Lyrics by Eddy Marnay

Aurora Chanson - Les Moulins de Mon Cœur (The Windmills of Your Mind)

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"Hier Encore," whose original French title translates as "Only Yesterday," is a song written by Charles Aznavour and released in September 1964.

It was subsequently released in English as "Yesterday, When I Was Young".
The English-language lyrics, written by Herbert Kretzmer, tell of a man reflecting on his life. He recounts how he had wasted his youth on self-centered pursuits, and that, now that he is older, he will not be able to do all that he had planned; this implies that he may be close to his impending death.

Hier Encore Pierre Bachelet

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