Cap'n's Cabaret #12: C'est la Vie...

Au revoir, Paris, it was grand. The lights, the wine, the food, the music...but alas, all things must end. And with panzers rolling through the Ardennes there is but little time to make our retreat to sunnier climes. But first, one last toast to the France that was...

We kick back now on a streetside cafe in Nice with a cocktail and the sorrowful music of the great Edith Piaf. It may be springtime for Hitler, but it is autumn for Poland and France.

Our Latcoere flying boat leaves soon. Perhaps Casablanca will hold hope for romance anew. Until then, we toast the great promises of the twenties and thirties, for the forties promise only war and death.

C'est la Vie...

( Music by Joseph Kosma and lyrics by poet Jacques Prévert)

To drink, a Sidecar cocktail. Despite its kitchy name, it is taste and sophistication personified. Ideal for a day, sweet or somber, in a streetside cafe table.

Sidecar Cocktail:

 - 2 oz Cognac or Brandy

 - 1/2 oz Cointreau or other Triple Sec

 - 1/2 oz lemon juice

Stir over ice, strain into a cocktail glass, garnish with a lemon twist.

Au revoir for now, my friends, until we meet again...