Jul 11
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In the summer of 1832, Honoré Daumier was sent to prison for six months after offending the king and his officers in a particularly acute sa
Translation issue
French-speaking friends, how would you translate, "Ça n’empêche pas les sentiments"? Literally it would be 'That doesn't stop feelings' with the more general sense of 'that doesn't stop someone from feeling fond/ affectionate' but it doesn't seem to capture the sense of the phrase really, which is closer to something like, "the heart wants what it wants." I think.
Les Enfants du Paradis has a scene from Robert Macaire that includes the lines:
Tuer les mouchards et les gendarmes/ Ça n’empêche pas les sentiments.
The Criterion Collection subtitles it as "Killing policemen never hurt anybody," but I'm wondering if they went for brevity rather than accuracy because immediately after that Frédérick Lemaître fake-shoots the actor playing a policeman and instructs him to fall down.
ETA: checked the Centre Nationale de Ressources Textuales and Lexicales, and they offer, "Cela n'exclut pas des sentiments affectueux, malgré un contexte cynique ou intéressé" as an explanation of "Ça n'empêche pas les sentiments." So, non-French speakers, any idea for some ironic catchphrase used when someone is deeply fond of something despite a situation where they should not be fond of it?
Jean Angelo as Robert Macaire in Les aventures de Robert Macaire, 1925
via Truus, Bob & Jan too!