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Les voici les p’tits "Bleuets"                         These here, these little "Bleuets"
Les Bleuets couleur des cieux                    These Bleuets the color of the sky,
Ils vont jolis, gais et coquets,   Are beautiful, gay, stylish,
Car ils n’ont pas froid aux yeux.                  Because they are not afraid.
En avant partez joyeux;                             Merrily, go forward
Partez, amis, au revoir!   Go on, my friends, so long!
Salut à vous, les petits "bleus" ,             Good luck for you, little "blues"
Petits "bleuets", vous notre espoir ! Little "bleuets," you are our hope!

~ Alphonse Bourgoin, from Bleuets de France, 1916.

The bleuet de France is the symbol of memory and solidarity, in France, for veterans, victims of war, widows, and orphans, similar to the British and Canadian remembrance poppy.
In the language of flowers, the cornflower symbolises delicacy and timidity, and indicates that a message has a pure, innocent, or delicate intention.
The cornflower – like the poppy – continued to grow in land devastated by the thousands of shells which were launched daily by the entrenched armies of the Western Front These flowers were often the only visible evidence of life, and the only sign of colour in the mud of the trenches.
At the same time, the term "bleuets" was used also to refer to the class of conscripted soldiers born in 1895 who arrived in the lead-up to the second battle of the Aisne, because of the horizon blue uniform worn by French soldiers after 1915.

~ Wikipedia

Description
Les voici les p’tits "Bleuets"                         These here, these little "Bleuets"
Les Bleuets couleur des cieux                    These Bleuets the color of the sky,
Ils vont jolis, gais et coquets,   Are beautiful, gay, stylish,
Car ils n’ont pas froid aux yeux.                  Because they are not afraid.
En avant partez joyeux;                             Merrily, go forward
Partez, amis, au revoir!   Go on, my friends, so long!
Salut à vous, les petits "bleus" ,             Good luck for you, little "blues"
Petits "bleuets", vous notre espoir ! Little "bleuets," you are our hope!

~ Alphonse Bourgoin, from Bleuets de France, 1916.

The bleuet de France is the symbol of memory and solidarity, in France, for veterans, victims of war, widows, and orphans, similar to the British and Canadian remembrance poppy.
In the language of flowers, the cornflower symbolises delicacy and timidity, and indicates that a message has a pure, innocent, or delicate intention.
The cornflower – like the poppy – continued to grow in land devastated by the thousands of shells which were launched daily by the entrenched armies of the Western Front These flowers were often the only visible evidence of life, and the only sign of colour in the mud of the trenches.
At the same time, the term "bleuets" was used also to refer to the class of conscripted soldiers born in 1895 who arrived in the lead-up to the second battle of the Aisne, because of the horizon blue uniform worn by French soldiers after 1915.

~ Wikipedia