Draft:La Complainte des filles de joie

La Complainte des Filles de Joy is a song by French singer-songwriter Georges Brassens. It appears on his album Le temps ne fait rien à l'affaires and was released as a single in 1961.

Composition
The song addresses the theme of prostitution. The singer places himself from the point of view of prostitutes, evoking the inconveniences of this activity - public contempt, police persecution, fatigue and foot problems, dirt or ugliness of clients, loneliness - and concludes that these despised women are no different from others and deserve compassion and respect.

Reception
On June 16, 1976, Georges Brassens received the support of the collective of Paris prostitutes, via a letter thanking him for "his songs which help us to live".

Joël Favreau, Brassens' accompanying guitarist from 1972, relates this event in his book Quelques notes avec Brassens. After a concert in Roubaix, Brassens was given a standing ovation as he left the concert hall by the collective of prostitutes in question. There were several dozen of them who had waited a long time for him at the exit to applaud him.