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Maurice Chevalier Accent
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Actor and singer Maurice Chevalier was the first French entertainer who became an international superstar after he moved to Hollywood. His fame and long career made him the most famous and easily recognized Frenchman of the 20th century. So, whenever comedians or even serious actors had to portray an archetypical Frenchman they imitated Chevalier's voice, which had a heavy French accent. A Stock Parody that is still in vogue today, even though most comedians and audiences have no idea where this stereotype originated from. The Maurice Chevalier accent is a typical Funny Foreigner subtrope, especially whenever a story is set in France. All these French characters talk in the same way: "the" and "this" are pronounced "zee" and "zis". The "w" is pronounced "ooweee". Some Gratuitous French words "mais oui", "sacrebleu", "zut alors", "mon ami" or "mon chéri" are used non-stop. There's often a grotesque emphasis on the final syllable of the last word in a sentence, for instance: "Zis is veiry importà à à à à à à nt!" Chevalier's iconic "hon hon hon" Signature Laugh has also become the standard way Frenchmen laugh in English-speaking fiction. Nowadays the Maurice Chevalier Accent is used to voice many French characters in English-speaking media. In comedy and animation this can be amusing, but in serious stories it becomes Just a Stupid Accent and can really take you out of the story, because it literally becomes ridiculous Poirot Speak. In fact, whenever a comedic accent is needed you can rest assured that it will usually be French. It gets to the point of overkill. Sometimes, like in the movie Shrek (where the British character Robin Hood inexplicably speaks English with a French accentnote This may be explained by the fact that Robin Hood was a Norman), people are depicted as being French for no apparent reason other than evoking laughs while using the accent. The accent is a bit Truth in Television for most Frenchmen whose English is not yet that fluent, though everyone who tries to speak a language that isn’t his own will have problems mastering it. Ironically enough even Maurice Chevalier himself lost his native accent after a while and sounded more like a normal English speaking man. Only in his early Hollywood years it was very rusty, but he also played it up for the microphone and cameras, because he was usually typecast as the archetypical Frenchman and thus had to sound like an "authentic" Frenchman who didn't speak English that fluently. Almost always applies for people who live in Gay Paree. Compare with Mock Cousteau, whenever a scene takes place underwater. It may be worth pointing out that this trope is even more unrealistic when the French speaker in question is from Quebec. Québécois Francophones have markedly different accents in English than people from France (for example, th tends to be alveolarized, turning "this thing" into "dis ting" rather than "zis sing"). Giving a Quebec character this accent, as some films and movies have, piles Cultural Blending on top of it, especially if the character is also supplied with a beret, Gauloises, etc.note Obviously, you can meet people in Quebec with a France French accent — lots of people from France have moved there, especially in recent years — but not people culturally from Quebec. |
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Gambit of the X-Men is so infamous for laying on the "mon amis" and "ma chéris" that he's given a Take That! in one storyline where Mad Scientist villain Mr. Sinister clones an army of him. | |
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In an early episode of Cheers it was mentioned that Coach was learning French by listening to tapes in his car. Carla told him she didn't think they were doing him any good, asking him to say "How are you today?" in French. Coach responded, in English, repeating "How are you today in French?" in a Chevalier accent. | |
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Disney Animated Canon: Louis the cook in The Little Mermaid. Lumière in Beauty and the Beast, whose voice actor (Jerry Orbach) goes beyond the usual joke and actually does a full Chevalier impression, not just the accent- though note that the entire story takes place in France and yet he and his feather duster girlfriend are the only ones speaking in a heavy French accent. The French dub of the movie rolls with this by having Daniel Beretta keep Lumière's accent but making everyone else use modern intonations. The Genie in Aladdin plays a French waiter and typical Frenchmen near a romantic dinner, while using the accent. Prince Naveen in The Princess and the Frog, even though he's supposed to be from a fictional European country, and the few native words he uses sound closer to Italian than to French. |
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Polandball: Franceball's laugh is usually portrayed as "Hon hon hon", but its actual way of speaking is more Poirot Speak like other non-anglophone countries. | |
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The Simpsons: Jacques the bowling instructor in the episode "Life in the Fast Lane". The clumsy waiter in the episode "The Boy Who Knew Too Much". Jacques and Ugolin in "The Crepes of Wrath". In the "Treehouse of Horror VIII" segment, the French militaries who bomb Springfield all speak with a Maurice Chevalier accent and even conclude with a "hon hon hon" laugh. The French cook in "Guess Who's Coming To Criticize Dinner?" The French military officer in "The Trouble with Trillions". The West Springfield Elementary French teacher and his students in "Trilogy of Error". |
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Looney Tunes: Mel Blanc used this voice for many French characters, and even other francophones, such as Canadians like the lumberjack in Wet Hare. However, Pepé Le Pew was based more on actor Charles Boyer's accent, although he does do a brief Chevalier imitation in Scent-imental Romeo. | |
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Played straight in Star Trek: Picard, when Picard is trying to pretend to be a black marketeer with an eyepatch. He opts to go for an over-the-top French accent. | |
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Of Thee I Sing: The French Ambassador is typically acted with a thick Chevalier-like accent. Some justification can be found in the fact that Chevalier is name-dropped in the soldiers' chorus preceding his entrance. | |
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The Red Shoes (1948): Some people speak actual French, others talk English with a grotesque French accent. | |
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Prince Naveen in The Princess and the Frog, even though he's supposed to be from a fictional European country, and the few native words he uses sound closer to Italian than to French. | |
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Lapoleon in the Best Fiends web shorts is given this accent, to further highlight his name, while also adding to an air of wealth that he has thanks to being prepped to be the "Emperor of Everything" in the future. | |
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The English dub of Asterix in Britain gives the Gauls this accent (and the French version had the Britons speaking French with a British accent). | |
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Frenchie in The Boys. He also sprinkles his phrases with French words. | |
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Lumière in Beauty and the Beast, whose voice actor (Jerry Orbach) goes beyond the usual joke and actually does a full Chevalier impression, not just the accent- though note that the entire story takes place in France and yet he and his feather duster girlfriend are the only ones speaking in a heavy French accent. The French dub of the movie rolls with this by having Daniel Beretta keep Lumière's accent but making everyone else use modern intonations. |
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Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther. | |
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In Gorgeous Princess Creamy Beamy, natives of French West Stereotypia talk like this. | |
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Planet Sketch: June Spume had one, as her only line in the show was "I am June Spume, zis is mah tune.". | |
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John Cleese as the French Taunter in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, despite the film taking place in an anachronistic but pre-Norman medieval England. Even Galahad asks him: "What are you doing in England?" | |
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Laureline was given these speech mannerisms in Roleplay Retcon 's remake of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets as an homage to the source material's French roots. | |
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The Swan Princess: Again, the frog speaks French for no particular reason. Except that he is voiced by John Cleese, who seems to enjoy voicing French characters. (And it could be a Stealth Pun, as "frog" has long been a slang word for the French.) | |
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Randie's friend Jacques in Squid Row combines this with Funetik Aksent. | |
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In ''Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM)' Antione speaks with a thick French accent with all the idiosyncrasies of Maurice Chevalier. | |
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French teacher Monsieur Leblanc on Our Miss Brooks. Likewise with any French character that appears on the show (or was heard in the radio version). | |
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Star Trek: Averted by Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation. The producers originally wanted the Captain to sound French but Patrick Stewart's attempts at a French accent came off as this. The producers then decided that a Captain's voice based on a comic actor was unsuitable for their series, and told Stewart to just use his trained RP accent (Stewart naturally - being a Yorkshireman — then had an Oop North accent). In just one episode does he speak French, and it's in an RP accent then too. His family are also English-speaking and accented too when they appear (in just one episode again), which is presumably Translation Convention since it's France. Played straight in Star Trek: Picard, when Picard is trying to pretend to be a black marketeer with an eyepatch. He opts to go for an over-the-top French accent. |
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In French Kiss, every single French character speaks this way. In particular, Luc (played by Kevin Kline) is all but doing an outright Maurice Chevalier imitation. | |
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Shrek: Robin Hood, despite being an English folklore character, speaks with a French accent. | |
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Invoked in the pre-show warm-up for The Now Show 2017 Edinburgh Festival special (and probably other Now Show warm-ups). Steve and Hugh first explain that the sound guys need the audience to do a quiet laugh and a loud laugh, so they know what to expect and can get the mixing right. In order to make this more fun, they then suggest the audience do a pirate laugh. They then ask for the audience, without thinking about it or discussing it with each other, to do a French laugh. And almost everyone goes "Hon-he-hon-he-hon" in unison. | |
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'Allo 'Allo!: All the French characters speak with this accent. | |
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Eric Idle during the title song, "The Meaning of Life" and the waiters in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. | |
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In Reality (2014) a French character has a terrible accent in spite of being a successful businessman who lives in an English speaking country. | |
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On The Huckleberry Hound Show, Daws Butler voiced Powerful Pierre in this way. | |
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In the original dub of Disco Elysium, Jean Vicquemere (played by the English Dot Major) is voiced with this kind of accent ("'Arry, I'm your FACK-quing PART-néirrrrrrre!!"), emphasising his French Jerk qualities. When The Final Cut replaced him with an actor doing a geniune Franco-American accent, several fans reported finding the new accent unrealistic. | |
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The Broadway production of Hamilton has Lafayette, originally played by Daveed Diggs, use this accent when he appears in Act 1 to fight alongside the revolting Americans fighting for independence from Britain after coming from France. At first it's Played for Laughs in "My Shot" when he doesn't know how to pronounce "anarchy", but as the story and war go on his lines become more complex and fast-paced. It becomes very impressive when he gets to "Guns and Ships", in which he has to rap in that accent at what is probably the fastest lines in Broadway history at nineteen words in three seconds while also jumping around the stage. | |
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The narrator on SpongeBob SquarePants, who is a reference to Jacques Cousteau. | |
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The Genie in Aladdin plays a French waiter and typical Frenchmen near a romantic dinner, while using the accent. | |
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Jacques, male member of the ice dancing team from Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race has this although he's French-Canadian | |
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In the Mickey Mouse cartoon Mickey's Gala Premier (1933), Maurice Chevalier is one of the celebrities who welcomes Mickey by singing in his signature accent. | |
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Trope Namer in Mel Brooks’ History of the World Part I | |
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In An American Tail: Fievel Goes West the French Cat in Cat R. Waul's gang speaks with an incredibly thick Chevalier accent. | |
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During the "Everyday French with Pierre Escargot" segments on All That, Kenan Thompson would affect Maurice Chevalier's signature laugh. And that's pretty much the extent of the accent. | |
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In the "Voltaire" sketch on John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, the characters all have "outrrrrajous French accents". Finnemore-as-Voltaire informs Simon Kane that if he's not going to do one, he doesn't get any more lines. | |
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Louis the cook in The Little Mermaid. | |
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Although he cannot be heard, as this is the printed page, Batroc the Leaper is written with a thick "Frontch" accent, and has even reflected (in his own plainly written thought balloons) that he plays it up for effect. | |
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Averted by Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation. The producers originally wanted the Captain to sound French but Patrick Stewart's attempts at a French accent came off as this. The producers then decided that a Captain's voice based on a comic actor was unsuitable for their series, and told Stewart to just use his trained RP accent (Stewart naturally - being a Yorkshireman — then had an Oop North accent). In just one episode does he speak French, and it's in an RP accent then too. His family are also English-speaking and accented too when they appear (in just one episode again), which is presumably Translation Convention since it's France. | |
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