Touche pas à la Blanche Hermine

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Hands off the White Ermine

What am I hearing? It seems that in the back kitchens of parties led by a one-eyed leader, blind followers are bellowing about the White Ermine? What's gotten into you, you fascists? I don't see how you can sing that under your tricolor flame? Either you don't sing all the verses! Or if you do sing them all, it's because besides being blind, you're deaf too. I suppose what attracts you to this ermine is its whiteness. But it's only white! Not blue, not red! Not something to make a banner for what you call ideas. And if, as it's likely, you like this color because of a race that you claim is less unequal than others, I'll point out that the ermine has a black tail! Enough to horrify the straw woman playing around in the south! In fact, Brittany's emblem is an animal whose fur changes with the seasons. If it's white in the snow, in summer its coat turns brown, the most mixed of colors! It's from an ermine that dogs chased, which stopped in front of a muddy puddle and preferred to die rather than get dirty that Brittany's motto comes: "Death rather than defilement!" And I tell you, you proponents of pure race, the White Ermine, this song that's not about your battles, you defile it when you sing it! Speaking of defilement, I sometimes hear those who speak of the one-eyed king of the blind call him the voice of deep Brittany: I protest! Brittany only provided the raw material! It's elsewhere that they took care of transforming it! He learned Breton history in school, not in the Breton army where he did his training, his castle is near Paris and Vitrolles is far from here! On his forehead it's marked Made in France! There are no ermines on his flag! As for deep Brittany, they voted for a black mayor in St Coulitz!

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