Ne Quittez Pas - The Operator Who Kept Paris Talking, August 1944 | French Female Vocals

Ne Quittez Pas — the night Paris is liberated, 24 to 25 August 1944, and a young telephone operator at the central exchange on the rue des Archives keeps the city's lines open through the gunfire and the rumours, while her fiancé holds a barricade somewhere on the Left Bank. A thousand lamps blinking on the switchboard, "allô, ne quittez pas" said a hundred times an hour, the headset pressed down over her hair, Jean on the barricade with no way to call her, a mother searching for Montparnasse, a German voice suddenly on the line, the whole city holding its breath, the tanks reaching the Hôtel de Ville, every bell in Paris ringing at once, the Marseillaise carried down the wires to anyone who picks up, a line cut in the middle of a sentence, snipers on the rooftops, his number dialled again and again, warm rain over the Marais, a stranger's voice asking for someone who is gone, the question of whether he is still alive, Madame Arnaud closing her eyes at the far end of a line — and the dawn of the twenty-fifth of August, one more light on the board, and his voice saying: allô, c'est moi. The set plays through twice, so put it on and leave it running. No talking, no ads inside the mix, no interruptions. Sung in French: soprano over strings, grand piano, soft harp and distant bells. Tracks ☎️: 0:00 Le Central de la Rue des Archives 4:38 Mille Lampes sur le Tableau 8:56 Allô, Ne Quittez Pas 13:14 Le Casque sur mes Cheveux 17:09 Jean sur la Barricade 21:12 Une Mère Cherche Montparnasse 25:25 Une Voix Allemande sur la Ligne 30:04 Paris Retient son Souffle 34:17 Les Chars à l'Hôtel de Ville 37:57 Toutes les Cloches de Paris 42:00 La Marseillaise dans les Fils 46:09 Une Ligne Coupée 49:42 Les Tireurs sur les Toits 53:39 Je Compose ton Numéro 57:53 Pluie Chaude sur le Marais 1:02:03 La Voix d'un Inconnu 1:06:00 Mon Amour Est-il Vivant 1:09:45 Madame Arnaud Ferme les Yeux 1:13:29 L'Aube du Vingt-Cinq Août 1:17:32 Allô, C'est Moi 1:21:32 Repeat 🎧 Subscribe for more: 👉 /@frenchsongbook Whose call would you have put through first? Tell me below 👇 #frenchmusic #chanson #paris1944 #studymusic #workmusic