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)
“So as to comprehend that the sky is blue everywhere one doesn’t need to travel around the world.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“Ghosts, we hope, may be always with us—that is, never too far out of the reach of fancy. On the whole, it would seem they adapt themselves well, perhaps better than we do, to changing world conditions—they enlarge their domain, shift their hold on our nerves, and, dispossessed of one habitat, set up house in another. The universal battiness of our century looks like providing them with a propitious climate ...”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)