Original sentence: "Le Bruit et l'Odeur" refers to a speech given in 1991 by the mayor of Paris and later French president Jacques Chirac; it translates to "the noise and the smell".He deplores the situation of working-class French who have trouble making ends meet and see next door some immigrant family, with a man, 3 or 4 spouses and a host of children, living off welfare and not working — and generating noises and smell.He then explains that in such conditions, the French worker, without being a racist, is bound to become mad — an explanation of the successes of Jean-Marie Le Pen, campaigning on anti-immigrant platform.In this speech, Chirac contrasts the situation of older generations of immigrants (coming from Spain, Portugal or Poland) to what he considers the current "overdose" of immigration, mostly from Muslims and Blacks.Welfare reform
Edited sentence: "Le Bruit et l'Odeur" refers to a speech given in 1991 by the mayor of Paris and later French president Jacques Chirac with openly discriminatory views on France's growing "Magrebin" (litterally meaning from Maghreb; generally referring to 1st, 2nd, or third generation North Africans that make up France's largest immigrated ethnic group) population."Le bruit et l'odeur" translates to "the noise and the smell".In his speech, Jean-Marie Le Pen deplores the condition of working class white French city dwellers forced to come home from a hard day's labor to immigrated neighbors who are depicted as noisy, disrespectful, festive, and malodorant.The band Zebda uses a part of the speech in their song Le Bruit et l'Odeur on the album of the same name