"Le Bal Masqué - La Compagnie Créole" has been shared to the blog from the French reading exercises section of the learning library where you can find a large selection of interactive texts to help you with your reading skills.
French Caribbean band La Compagnie Créole was an absolute staple of the French and international pop scenes in the 1980s, with cheerful, feel-good hits such as “Vive le Douanier Rousseau!” or “C’est bon pour le moral”. With “Le Bal Masqué”, the band celebrates the French Caribbean tradition of Mardi Gras with a vibrant and irresistible anthem. So put on your best carnival costume and join us in a joyful singalong with Le Bal Masqué !
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Aurélie is our resident French Expert. She has created most of the wonderful content you see on the site and is usually the person answering your tricky help questions. She comes from a small village near Chartres in Central France, country of cereal fields and not much else. She left (in a hurry) to study English at the world-famous Sorbonne in Paris, before leaving France in 2007 to experience the “London lifestyle” - and never looked back! She's worked as a professional French teacher, translator and linguist in the UK since. She loves to share her love of languages and is a self-professed cinema and literature geek!