Serge Gainsbourg wrote a song for Zizi Jeanmaire. 1971.

Serge Gainsbourg (1928.1991)

Autograph manuscript – The Millionaires.

A quarto page, slightly creased at the top.

Brown stain (coffee?) on the edge.

[Deauville. February 1971]

A comical working manuscript for the song "Les Millionnaires" created for Zizi Jeanmaire's Casino de Paris in 1972. Gainsbourg expresses the misandrist disdain of a woman looking for a millionaire, "a fat slob full of dollars".

At the bottom of the page, the artist repeats (then crosses out) the opening line of the song "Hip hip hip hurrah" written for Claude François in 1967: "I practice the politics of the burned woman".

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I'm fed up with it.

I've had it up to here

to be with a

so fat

a fat  slob

full  of dollars

Yes, you're just a   fat,   rich   guy .

a big pile of money

a big bowl of soup

a  fat,  filthy man full  of dollars

All genres are crazy

I practice

politics

of the burned woman

behind me

he must not grow anything

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This song was composed by Gainsbourg in February 1971 during his stay, in the company of Jane Birkin, at the Normandy Hotel in Deauville

Zizi Jeanmaire performed the song for the first time on stage at the Casino de Paris on February 14, 1972. The song was later released on the LP Casino de Paris / Nouvelle revue de Roland Petit / Zizi je t'aime.