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FWiW you couldn't go to an Australian pub in the 1980s without running into a band drawing on French philosophy / poetry.

eg: Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls at the Hopetoun Hotel in '86 riffing on lines from Arthur Rimbaud

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrTGWrQ4YGs

* https://www.paulkelly.com.au/lyric/the-execution/

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Rimbaud