To the friend who fell,
A song on her lips,
Together we will sing,
Hand in hand.
To all those who fell,
To all those who cried,
Together we will remain,
Hand in hand.
To Paris, its quays, its fog,
The beach under its cobbles,
The breeze that makes
Its dead leaves dance.
Paris, its walkers, its shadows,
Its cooing lovers,
Its public benches, its plane trees,
Its dead leaves.
Paris awakening at dawn,
Two black coffees on a terrace,
A gardener who's harvesting
His dead leaves.
To the friend who fell,
A song on her lips,
Together we will sing,
Hand in hand.
To those who have fought
So that Paris may remain free,
That Paris remains Paris,
Heads held high.
To the men who came
From all over the world
With the only hope to live
Heads held high.
To the women who suffered
Humiliations and violence
For daring to keep
Heads held high
To all those who fell,
To all those who cried,
Together we will remain,
Hand in hand.
We'll recover the accents
Of the elders who are gone.
With their words in between ours,
We will sing.
"I have two loves"
"Sweet France"
"No, I regret nothing at all",
"Friend, can you hear," "Paname"
We will sing.
In the root language of Racine,
Senghor, Apollinaire,
Proust and Kateb Yacine
We will sing.
To the friend fell fallen,
A song on her lips,
Together we will sing,
Hand in hand.
To all of you who keep faith
In human dignity,
In all the countries of the world,
and forever.
The future belongs to you,
it will give you reason,
it will be at your image,
And forever.
You will see the decline
Of fanaticism, hatred,
Blindness, ignorance,
And forever.
To the friend who fell,
A song on her lips,
Together we will sing,
Hand in hand.
To those who fell,
To those who cried,
Together we'll remain
Hand in hand.
May terror never again
Come to stain our cities,
May hatred never ever
Stain our hearts.
May music live
In our streets as well as in our souls,
Forever like a testimony
Of liberty.
Traduction de “Un automne à Paris” de Amin Maalouf par T.B., A.J. J.F. A. H., B.G. M.P., T.M., M.S., J.S., 1ère L, Cité Scolaire Robert Weinum, Collectivité de Saint-Martin