Bénabar left La P'tite Monnaie to his associates, but continues to present his collection of funny and lucid snapshots, vignettes from his life as a "young thirty-something". A worthy heir to Higelin, Renaud, Aznavour, Brassens or Brel, Bénabar – whose name is derived from the clown Barnabé in verlan – Bruno in real life, was adopted by Henri Salvador. While he still carries his casualness and self-deprecation to a brass band and accordion tune, Bénabar discovers Les Risques du métier and sometimes gives in to melancholy by celebrating the retirement of "Mr. René" or dwelling on the vanished youth of "La Coquette". But his honky-tonk piano is better suited to the ironic stories of this cousin of Sansévérino or Thomas Fersen, who travels crammed in a car with his six friends in "L'Itinéraire", rummages through his beloved's "Sac à main" and goes on holiday with his small family in a "Monospace". Bénabar, a local hero.
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