Marchand de cailloux

Marchand de cailloux
Studio album by
Released1 October 1991
Recorded1991
GenreRock/Chanson
Length52:52
LabelVirgin Music
ProducerPete Briquette
Renaud chronology
Putain de camion
(1989)
Marchand de cailloux
(1991)
Renaud cante el' Nord
(1993)

Marchand de cailloux is a studio album from French artist Renaud. It was released in 1991 and seen as a return to form after the less positive reviews for the previous album, Putain de camion.

In this album Renaud again takes up socio-political themes. Le Tango des Élus mocks politicians, La ballade nord-irlandaise is a pacifist song evoking the troubles of Northern Ireland (later reprised in 2009's Molly Malone – Balade irlandaise), and 500 connards sur la ligne de départ makes fun of the "morons" who race in the African desert (i.e. the Paris-Dakar Rally), oblivious to the misery surrounding them.