Theodore Botrel is a Auteur-compositeur-interprète French born the September 14th 1868 with Dinan, dead on July 26th 1925 with Bridge-Swallow-hole where it is buried.

Life

It is high in Brittany by his grandmother until the 7 years age, then joined his parents with Paris.

Originating in the country Gallo (the part is of Brittany which spoken Breton forever), he learned the Breton one only on late, and the near total of its work is in French.

Towards 16-17 years, it belongs to a troop amateur where it makes play his first part the Dagger . It starts to write some songs and leaves its first printed song the small bagpipe at 18 years. It did not have any success, another Biniou having already left a few years before.

It engages then for 5 years in the army and on its return works with PLM (Company of the railroads Paris-Lyon-Marseilles). He plays in parallel in a small theater company, auprès, inter alia, from that which was going to become Dranem and continuous to write some songs, which obtain only little success.

But one evening, in one coffee-singing, it replaces a singer absent and sings some of its works of which Paimpolaise . It will be glory. This song remains with the repertory of Mayol until its death in 1941. It will be noticed that in this song, he sings I like Paimpol and his cliff , whereas with Paimpol even there is no cliff.

One will retain his patriotic songs during the Great War whose celebrates it My P' tite Mimi taken again by Pierre Desproges.

Theodore Botrel had two girls, whose elder one, Léna, was the wife of Emile Danoën.

Principal songs

Paimpolaise

Leaving its brooms and its moor,

When the Breton one is done marine,

While going to fishings of Iceland

Voici which is the soft refrain

That poor the gâs

Fredonne very low

" I like Paimpol and his cliff,

His church and his large forgiveness;

I like especially Paimpolaise

Which awaits me the country breton." …

The Small Gregoire

On the topic of the Chouannerie:

the mom of the small man,

says to Him one morning:

" At sixteen years Our bread bin

At the city you are to you high just like

can make to

a good apprentice,

But to plow the ground,

be to You too small Ben my friend,

are to You too small Ben,

Dame oui".

…

the war bursts in Brittany

next spring,

And Gregoire enters to shift,

With Jean Chouan.

the balls passed many

To the top of him,

While sifflotant, scornful:

" It is too small this pretty,

it is too small,

Dame oui".

The red Handkerchief of Cholet

On the topic of the Chouannerie:

I had bought for your festival,

Three small handkerchiefs of Cholet,

Rouges like the cerisette,

All the three,

My crumb Annette,

Ah which they were thus joliets,

small handkerchiefs of Cholet.

…

saw Them Mister of Cart,

wanted Them, I gave them to him…

The Song of Patour

Impossible love of a shepherd for a smart ladies of the city.

Fleur de Blé Black

I) On the edge of the Rancid one Where I was born, I have the soft hope. To be liked of love. In a smallholding As assistance-shepherd For mieu to see my pretty I guaranteed myself.

Refrain: Not, null Breton is not any more migonne to be seen That the beautiful one that one calls: " Corn noir" Fleur; Not, null Breton is not nice any more to see That my buckwheat flower

II) When I crossed it One evening daN corns If fresh and if dew I was plugged by it And my delighted lip Murmured: Good evening Hello with you Marie The buckwheat flower

III) It is in of the same corns By one evening gilded That I say to him: I love you Always will love you. It is in corns still That with the finger I put to him One August fifteen with the dawn The ring of promised

IV) Let us go, gas and young girls Mow the harvest Because made harvest We will marry And then in the clear night Ground-all gathered We will dance on the surface Where corns are beaten

V) Living the happy life That God will make us Let us await the reaper Who will mow us. When you see that fall Our last evening. Sow on our tomb Buckwheat flowers

The Cruel Lullaby

A woman rocks her last-born child, who will be removed to him by the cruel sea, as before him his father and his older brother.

The Wish with Yves Saint

A widow makes like Ex-voto a ship, with like materials one of her shoes, her apron of marriage… to ask Saint Yves to bring back her son for him.

The Round of Sweet chestnuts

A dancing festival, " by eating sweet chestnuts with cider doux".

The Knife

Forgiveness Mister the sharecropper,

Si of night disturbs you,

But I would like sommeiller,

At the bottom of your barn.

My good friend the barn is full,

corn of the harvest,

Donne you thus rather the sorrow,

to enter the house.

…

Then the sharecropper fell asleep,

midnight being close,

Alors the vagrant left,

a knife of its pocket,

opened It, made it shine with the flame,

Then being drawn up suddenly,

It planted its terrible blade,

In… the bread round loaf.

Song taken again in 2005 by the group My shoes are red, in their album " One hour déjà".

Kenavo!

Goodbye! , into Breton.

White Lila

Large Lustukru

Song for children, on the topic of the Croquemitaine (and not of the father Lustucru).

By the little finger

A love which defies time:

By holding us

Well nicely

By the little finger

A reference to certain Breton dances (the An dro for example) where the dancers are held by a finger.

The wool Knitting

Another song on the suffering of the woman of sailor:

M algré the high wind

which thunders without trève,

Léna Morvan

is come to the strike.

is come from there while singing

a cantilena

while knitting

a beautiful waistcoat from wool…

S one not of known knitting

of it only

comes to him from Margaux

its late aïleule.

And its proud man

and beautiful captain

will spend this winter

this beautiful waistcoat of wool…

S ur a building

of fishing it orders

but in this moment

it returns from Iceland.

Ever taken again,

eight month with the sorrow

which it must be worn

its old waistcoat of wool…

L has sea

with the air to today say

" to him; I bring that

that your heart wishes! "

Thinking of the return

the merry Helene

puts all her love

in its wool knitting.

P abstr. of it suddenly

the ocean which dribbles

throws with scorn

a horrible wreck:

it is a shipwrecked man

hardly covered

with one waxed corroded

and a wool knitting…

J being its knitting

in the lying sea

with a sob

dies the knitting machine:

on the semi-naked body

that the wave brings

it recognized

the old wool knitting…

In Parson

Poignant song, on the return to the country the shortly after the death of its " Large Fanchon" Mom;.

Seagulls, Goélettes

Birds and boats in the basin of Paimpol.

Fanchette

The inaccuracy of a woman of sailor attracted by the lights of Paris.

Jesus at the Breton ones

If Jesus returned in the world,

the soft saver with fair beard,

the carpenter with the large soft eyes,

Jesus should come in the world,

On our premises.

You, you, you,

Sound the binous,

Because Jesus perhaps will reappear,

You, you, you,

Sonnez the binous,

Because Jesus perhaps will return on our premises.

Mister de Kergariou

Noble Breton, poor but proud and courageous one.

Devil out of Bottle

Anti-alcohol, and humorous song: all the animals pass without drinking: " Oh it, that it is that, never I would not drink a ça". Only the man succumbs: " Oh it, that it is that, I have Diabl' in the estomac".

Marie your daughter

Difficulty in marrying a girl in Brittany of the time:

Marie your sons when you want

Your daughter when you can.

My P' tite Mimi

(on the air of my Tonkinoise)

When ell' sings with its manner

Taratata, taratata, taratatère

Ah which its refrain enchants me

It is as a Z-bird which sings

I it appell' Glorious the

My p' tit' Mimi, my p' tit' Mimi, my machine-gun

Rosalie makes me the soft eyes

But it is ell' which I aim' best… the

(complete text with a MP3 in premium)

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Partitions

" Letter with MIREILLE" 2 Pages (partition + text 4 verses)

Extracts of the songs of Jacques-the-Ground and Jacques-the-Vagueness

Edition ONDET Paris (the Twenty)

Publications

Georges Ondet is the Editor-Owner of Works of Botrel. the good song . Monthly review under the direction of Theodore Botrel.

• Songs of on our premises (Breton Songs), Foreword of Anatole Braz, cover, watercolours except text and drawings of E. - H. Vincent, Paris Georges Ondet editor 1898 (first edition), G. Ondet - 1923, final, re-examined and corrected Edition. Paris: Georges Ondet, 1926

• " Songs of " Fleur-of-Lys" " , Préfacede Georges D' Esparbès, Cover-Watercolour and fifteen Lithographies except text, on vellum, of E. Herve Vincent, Paris Georges Ondet editor, 1899
• Contes of Read-Close - Accounts and Breton Legends in worms followed by Songs to say - Paris, Georges Ondet, 1900.
• songs of Small Breton the (3 Booklets) Paris, Fort - 1901
• the songs of Jean-which-sings . (Lovesongs to be sung and Poetries to be said). Illustrated of 45 compositions of Jean Balluriau. Music of Andre Colomb. P., Rueff, and Roller, 1907
• Songs in shoes . Paris G.Ondet, editor 1911
• Songs of the Bell-tower-with-Day followed by Songs in margin (continuation of the Songs of on our premises and the Songs in shoes). 1912, Paris: Georges Ondet, 1926
• Blows of Bugle . Georges Ondet, Editor. Paris. 1912.
• larks - Poetries 1903-1912 - Edict. : Bloud and Gay - 1912 - New increased edition of the Songs of the Lark
• songs of the Bivouac. August 1st - December 31st, 1914. Refrains of war. Paris Bookstore Payot 1915
• One hour of music with Theodore Botrel . Paris, Editions cosmopolitan, 1930
• Chansons on Bombards put in music and preceded by a " homage to the barde" by P. Danjou. P, Quadrant chansonnière, 1932.
• Paimpolaise . Epilog of the Novel of Pierre Parcelled out “Fishing of Iceland”. In an act, worms. Paris, SPES, 1932
• the mystery of Kéravel. Drama in 3 acts. I. black diamond. - II. Foreigner III. The voice of dead the . Niort, Boulord.
• Memories of a Breton Bard. P., P. Lethielleux, 1933.
• Memories of a bard wandering . Brittia editions, 1946.
• memories of an Vezin-the-Vain bard wandering , Yves Salmon, 1988. Preface Charles Goffic. Reprint of the edition of 1926. " Theodore Botrel, excels chansonnier, had begun again by extending it and by adapting it to the modern conditions, the tradition of the old bards gyrovagues of Low-Brittany, runners of taken care, fairs, forgiveness; one can say that his life, starting from 1895 was a perpetual vagrancy, a melody manner of Apostolat to the four corners of the world. From where the title given to its memories. "
• the dagger . Editions Andre Lesot 1939

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