Translation of the song lyrics Le Petite Boutique - Édith Piaf

Le Petite Boutique (original)

Je sais, dans un quartier d?
sert
Un coin qui se donne des airs
De province aristocratique
J’y d?
couvris l’autre saison
Encastr?
e entre deux maisons
Une miniscule boutique
Un beau chat noir?
tait vautr?
Sur le seuil quand je suis entr?
e
Il leva sur moi ses prunelles
Puis il eut l’air en me voyant
De se dire: «Tiens !
Un client…
Quelle chose sensationnelle !»
Ce magazin d’antiquit?s
Excitait ma curiosit?
Par sa d?
su?te apparence
Une clochette au son f?
l?
Se mit?
tintinnabuler
Dans le calme et ti?
de silence
Soudain, sorti je ne sais d’o?
Un petit vieillard aux yeux doux
Me fit un grand salut baroque
Et j’eus l'?trange sentiment
De vivre un tr?
s ancien moment
Fort?
loign?
de notre?
poque
Je marchandais un vieux bouquin
Dont la reliure en maroquin
Gardait l’odeur des chambres closes
Lorsque, je ne sais trop comment
Je me mis, au bout d’un moment
A parler de tout autre chose
Mais le vieux ne connaissait rien
Quel?
tonnement fut le mien
De constater que le bonhomme
Ne savait rien, ?videmment
Des faits et des?
v?nements
Qui passionnaient les autres hommes
Il ignorait tout de ce temps
Aussi bien les gens importants
Que les plus c?
l?bres affaires
Et c'?tait peut-?tre cela
Qui, dans ce tranquille coin-l?
Cr?
ait cette?
trange atmosph?
re
J’acquis le bouquin poussi?
reux
Et je partis le c?
ur heureux
Le chat noir, toujours impassible
Dans un petit clignement d’yeux
Parut me dire, malicieux:
«Tu ne croyais pas?
a possible …»
Je m’en allai, et puis voil?
Mon anecdote finit l?
Car cette histoire ne comprend
Ni chute, ni moralit?
Mais quand je suis trop affect?
e
Par le potins que l’on colporte
Par les scandales d?
go?tants
Par les proc?
d?s r?
voltants
Des requins de la politique
Afin de mieux m'?loigner d’eux
Je vais passer une heure ou deux
Dans cette petite boutique…

(translation)

I know, in a neighborhood of
serves
A corner that gives itself airs
From aristocratic province
I d?
covered the other season
recessed
e between two houses
A tiny shop
A beautiful black cat?
was wallowing?
On the threshold when I entered?
and
He looked up at me
Then he looked upon seeing me
To think, "Hey!
A customer…
What a sensational thing!”
This antique store
Excited my curiosity?
By his d?
your appearance
A bell with the sound f?
I?
Began?
tinkle
In the calm and ti?
of silence
Suddenly, I don't know where?
A sweet-eyed little old man
Gave me a grand baroque salute
And I had the strange feeling
To live a tr?
s old moment
Strong?
far?
of our?
when
I was haggling an old book
Including the morocco binding
Kept the smell of closed rooms
When, I don't know how
I got, after a while
Talking about something else
But the old man knew nothing
What?
astonishment was mine
To realize that the man
Didn't know anything, of course
Facts and?
events
Who fascinated other men
He didn't know all about that time
Both important people
What the most c?
free business
And maybe that was it
Who in that quiet corner there?
Cr?
have this?
strange atmosphere
D
I acquired the pousi book?
rousing
And I left the c?
ur happy
The always impassive black cat
In a blink of an eye
Seemed to say to me, mischievously:
"Didn't you believe?
has possible…”
I left, and then voila?
My anecdote ends here
'Cause this story doesn't include
Neither fall nor morality?
But when I'm too affected?
and
By the gossip that we peddle
By the scandals of
tasty
By the proc?
from r?
flywheels
Political Sharks
To better get away from them
I'll spend an hour or two
In this little shop...