La vache qui pleure waltz of fiddle, accordion and guitars." All songs by Kate & Anna McGarrigle and Philippe Tatartcheff, except where noted. La vache qui pleure La vache qui pleure is the ninth album by Kate & Anna McGarrigle, released in 2003. It is named after a prehistoric bas-relief (stone carving) near Djanet in the south of Algeria which is pictured on the album cover. Its title "La vache qui pleure" (French for "The crying cow") may also be a joke with the famous French cheese label "La vache qui rit" ("The laughing cow"). It is the sisters' second full album of French
Philip de la Vache II. He is generally supposed to have been the Vache referred to in Chaucer's poem "Truth" which says " Therfore, thou Vache, leve thine olde wrechednesse; Unto the world leve now to be thral.". It supposedly refers to a period between 1386 and 1389 when Vache was out of favour at court and had temporarily lost his positions there. His father-in-law, Sir Lewis Clifford, was a close friend of Chaucer's and Chaucer knew Sir Philip well. A country gentleman with a reputation for lavish hospitality, he may also have been the model for the Franklin in the General Prologue to