“I wrote the words and the music in a 16th Arrondissement hotel in Paris thinking about Montreal,” Jean-Pierre Ferland once recalled about Je reviens chez nous, a song he wrote on Christmas day in 1967 and has since become a true French classic. “I was homesick,” he explained. “You don’t write a song like this without a reason.” With every listen, Je reviens chez nous still evokes a tremendous emotion, including nostalgia and the yearning to be back home amongst one’s own. Made famous in France by Ginette Ravel, the song ranked second at the 1968 Sopot International Song Festival in Poland and won the much-coveted Charles Cros Academy Prize in Paris, France.