C'est Une Maison Bleue / It's A Blue House
His most known song is called "San Francisco", starting with the line: "C'est une maison bleue adossée à la colline/It's a blue house backed to the hill". In 1971, the young singer was living in a hippie community, in a blue house at the following address: 3841 18th street, San Francisco. Since the summer 2011, the house is blue again, after years of painted light green (the new owners have agreed to have it repainted).
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Famous quotes containing the words une, maison, blue and/or house:
“Je célébrai mon jour de fête
Dans une oasis d’Afrique
Vêtu d’une peau de girafe.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“There is a social respect necessary in company: you may start your own subject of conversation with modesty, taking care, however, de ne jamais parler de cordes dans la maison d’un pendu.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“There is no blue without yellow and without orange.”
—Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890)
“It could be clearly proved that by a practical nullification [by the South] of the Fifteenth Amendment the Republicans have for several years been deprived of a majority in both the House and Senate. The failure of the South to faithfully observe the Fifteenth Amendment is the cause of the failure of all efforts towards complete pacification. It is on this hook that the bloody shirt now hangs.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)