Marc Antoine Madeleine Desaugiers: "Tableau de Paris; Cadet buteux au Faubourg du Temple;
+Pierre Dupont: Le Livre; Les Louis d'Or
+Emile Debraux: Les Relieurs; Les Chapeaux
+Daniel Francois-Esprit Auber: Amour et Folie
+Pierre-Jean de Beranger: Le Corps et l'Ame; Les Escargots; L'Or; Les Quatre Ages historiques
+Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savaris: Ne Poursuivons plus la Gloire
+Eugene Francois Vidocq: Chanson
+Alexandre Pierre Joseph Doche: Madame Barbe bleu

Artists: Lucile Richardot, Cyrille Dubois, Arnaud Marzorati, Jerome Varnier, Les Lunaisiens

Arnaud Marzorati and his singers, "Les Lunaisiens", are unsurpassed specialists in the French folk songs of past centuries. They are dedicated to two great monuments of the 19th century: the writer Honoré de Balzac and the songwriter Pierre-Jean de Béranger, a poet and composer who was famous in his time for his genius in depicting society in all its social diversity, from the poorest to the richest. It was also during this period that Balzac created his sharply drawn portraits of more than 5,000 characters in his great work of some 90 novels, entitled The Human Comedy. The "Lunaisiens" have set a wide selection of witty and often satirical verses to music here, reflecting all the Parisian themes that preoccupied Balzac: social advancement, money and greed, corruption, love and betrayal. With the participation of Lucile Richardot and Cyrille Dubois, Arnaud Marzorati and his ensemble enthusiastically recount Balzac's extraordinary human menagerie. Marzorati summarizes: 'The human comedy was strongly inspired by song'.