Léon de Bercy, called Léon Drouin de Bercy or Léon Hiks (10 December 1857 in Paris – 31 July 1915 in Orléans, aged 57) was a French

chansonnier A chansonnier ( ca, cançoner, oc, cançonièr, Galician and pt, cancioneiro, it, canzoniere or ''canzoniéro'', es, cancionero) is a manuscript or printed book which contains a collection of chansons, or polyphonic and monophonic settings o ...

. A member of the literary club , he authored the reference book ''Montmartre et ses chansons : Poètes et Chansonniers'' (1902). He also collaborated with Aristide Bruant to ''L'Argot au XXe siècle. Dictionnaire français-argot''.

Songs or monologues

*''Le Milliard congréganiste'' (1910), satirical ditty, lyrics by Léon de Bercy and V. Tarault, éd. Georges Ondet (cotage GO4396bis) *''Ne jurez pas aux femmes'' (c. 1895), ditty, lyrics by Briollet and Hiks, music by Tiska et Del, Répertoire libre. Recorded under the title ''Illusions fichues ou Ne jurez pas aux femmes'', Odéon 238385 (undated) *Series ''Les Refrains de la Butte'' (1904) under the pseudonym Léon Drouin de Bercy, éd. Plessis : **''Une drôle de maison'', **''Le Brave Général Oku, fantaisie rosso-japonaise'' **''La Cravate à Jean'' **''Le Petit Frère à Ferdinand'' **''La Vaseline''Notice BNF
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Works

*Aristide Bruant (with collaboration of Léon Drouin de Bercy), ''L'Argot au XXe. Dictionnaire français-argot'', Flammarion, Paris, 1901, 457 p. *Léon de Bercy, ''Montmartre et ses chansons : Poètes et Chansonniers'', with 5 portraits-charges by Charles Léandre, éd. H. Daragon, Paris, 1902 (available o
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Sources

''Dix ans de bohème''
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Émile Goudeau Émile Goudeau (29 August 1849 – 18 September 1906) was a French journalist, novelist and poet. He was the founder of the Hydropathes literary club. Life He was born in Périgueux, Dordogne, the son of Germain Goudeau, an architect, and c ...

, ''Dix ans de bohème'', Henry du Parc, Paris, 1888 – Reprint under the direction of Michel Golfier and Jean-Didier Wagneur (with coll. of Patrick Ramseyer), Champvallon, 2000, 573 p.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bercy, Leon de French lyricists French chansonniers 1857 births Writers from Paris 1915 deaths