ABSTRACT
The Chant du Rosemont is an epic song in the langue d'oil dialect of Lorraine. It was first recorded in the middle of the nineteenth century in the southern part of the Vosges Mountains, in a canton that was part of Alsace, but close to the border between Lorraine and Franche-Comte. The earliest record of the Chant du Rosemont comes not from Corret but from the first instalment of an article written by Henri Bardy in 1853. No historical interpretation of the Chant du Rosemont could be made without a consideration of its transmission in oral tradition. The historical referents of the Chant du Rosemont are debatable, but most earlier commentators have agreed that it deals with local events during the Thirty Years War, and in particular the Austrian Sundgau uprising against Swedish occupation in the winter of 1632-3. The earliest authors to publish Chant du Rosemont made no effort to identify the protagonists or geographical references in the song.
