“Music soothes the soul”. This expression (which is said to have its origins in the writings of Plato) implies that music has an effect on morals through its educational and soothing virtues. The residents of La résidence Bleu Printemps have undoubtedly made it their motto. It is true that every month, the former journalist Claude Dupeyron brings them a first-class carriage. A carriage from the steam trains of yesteryear, filled with singers of the time: Les compagnons de la chanson, Dalida, Leny Escudero, Les Chaussettes Noires, Line Renaud, David Alexandre Winter, etc. All this is enhanced by videos referring to the 80th anniversary of the landing, the first appearance on television in 1962 of Françoise Hardy, or photos of the first photograph in the world by Nicéphore Niepce (1826), and the one showing the first characters “fixed” by Louis Daguerre in 1838, up to the very special tomb of children who died very young in Burkina Faso, near the village of Gorom Gorom, without forgetting the magnificent architectural corridors of the Moscow metro.
We sing, we clap, we chat and even… we dance the twist with the Chaussettes noires and Edith Mitchell. Music soothes the soul, but it has another virtue: it brings people together.
