Gustave Nadaud

Gustave Nadaud , born with Roubaix the February 20th 1820 and died in Passy in April 1893, is a Chansonnier French.

After having been accountant in the family company, Gustave Nadaud composes of the songs at the twenty-eight years age. Extremely of its success near his friends, it publishes its texts, in particular in the newspapers the Illustration and Le Figaro . Its repertory is composed of popular, funny, ironic and engaged pieces. With the lame King , it brushes a political satire of the Second Empire. Its work entitled Pandore is prohibited by the mode. Gustave Nadaud also nourishes social context. the Soldier of Marsala is inspired to him by the Expédition of the Thousand launched by Garibaldi in Sicily, but the song is authorized only under the Third Republic. Proof of its talent, it is one of the only chansonniers of the time to write itself its texts and to put them in music.

In spite of the success of its a few three hundred pieces, Gustave Nadaud dies in poverty, having always refused the seals.

A college bears its name to Wattrelos (Northern).

If the Garonne it had wanted

If the Garonne had wanted,

Lanturlu!

Quand it left its source,

Diriger differently its race,

And about the South épancher,

Which thus had been able to prevent some?

Edge small valley, plain and mountain,

If the Garonne had wanted,

Lanturlu!

It was going to sprinkle Spain.

If the Garonne had wanted,

Lanturlu!

To push in North its wandering walk,

It would have cut Charente,

Coupé the Loire at the flowered edges,

Coupé the Seine in Paris,

And green half, white half,

If the Garonne had wanted,

Lanturlu!

It was thrown in the English Channel.

If the Garonne had wanted,

Lanturlu!

It could have drunk the Saone,

Boire the Rhine after the Rhone,

From there, moving towards the East,

Absorber the Danube with Pesth,

And then, drunk through drinking,

If the Garonne had wanted,

Lanturlu!

It would have enlarged the Black Sea.

If the Garonne had wanted,

Lanturlu!

It could in its fury,

Pénétrer as far as Siberia,

Passer the Ural and the Volga,

Traverser all Kamtchatka,

And, of Atlas discharging the shoulder,

If the Garonne had wanted,

Lanturlu!

It would have thawed out the pole.

If the Garonne had wanted,

Lanturlu!

To humiliate the other rivers.

Only, to prove reliable,

It rounds its small batch:

having taken the Tarn and the Batch,

It confiscated the Dordogne.

the Garonne did not want,

Lanturlu!

To leave the country of Gascogne.