- Hexagone is a song by Renaud, released in 1975 in the album Amoureux de Paname.
- A first live version is included in the double album Printemps de Bourges 1978.
- In 2007, a new live version recorded in public is published as an extract from the album Tournée Rouge Sang.
- The song, meanwhile banned from broadcasting on France Inter during the visit of Pope Paul VI in 1975, tells in a critical way a year of the life of the French.
- Renaud reviews, month after month, the habits and customs of the French people, in a sarcastic and virulent tone: "To be born under the sign of the Hexagon / It is really not a part of pleasure / And the king of the jerks on his throne / He is French, I am sure".
- Hexagone, in reference to the nickname given to France in the 1860s by the black hussars, consists of four verses, each verse being devoted to a quarter of the life of the French.
- Renaud criticizes thus:
- January: the end-of-year celebrations in a country that does not change ("They kiss in January / Because a new year begins / But for eternity / It has not changed much, France").
- February: the affair of the Charonne subway station ("They are not heavy in February, / To remember Charonne, / The sworn bâtonniers / Who have perfected their work") and the police in general ("To maintain public order / They kill with impunity").
- March: the death penalty. Renaud draws a parallel between the situation in France (where the last execution of a common criminal dates back to May 12, 1973) and that of Franco's Spain, evoking the execution of two MIL militants, including the Catalan anarchist Salvador Puig i Antich, on March 2, 1974 ("When they execute in March / On the other side of the Pyrenees / An anarchist from the Basque Country / .... / But they forget that the guillotine / Still works with us").
