Songs of oral tradition in the French language in books, reviews, manuscripts, discs, cassettes, CDs
General informations - Coirault/Laforte correspondence
The Coirault catalogue contains 2293 song-types.
The Laforte catalogue contains 2983 song-types (not taking into account volume VI).
In 766 cases, a Coirault reference corresponds exactly to 1 Laforte reference.
In 65 cases, a Coirault reference corresponds to 2 separate Laforte reference. for example Coirault 103 (Mon père a fait bâtir château) = Laforte I I 16 (L’oiseau dans l’ormeau) and I N 10 (Mon père a fait bâtir château)
In 11 cases, a Coirault reference corresponds to 3 separate Laforte references for example Coirault1907 (Le passage du bois (La fille du lépreux) = Laforte I K 1 (La fille de Parthenay), I K 6 (L’embarquement de la fille du bourgeois), I K 7 (Le passage du bois)
179 Coirault references partially correspond to Laforte references (noted pro-parte)
This census takes into account 44 relationships that were not recorded by Georges Delarue.