[2] La Cuisinière was very successful, selling twelve thousand copies in Quebec, which was unprecedented sales for a record at the time.

[4] This follows a long tradition of French comedic folk songs dealing with rejected suitors.

[4] Each verse ends with the phrase: Hourra pour la cuisinière.

The melody follows an AABC pattern, where A, B and C are musical phrases that last four bars.

[4] Canadian folk songs of the time often employed 16 bar phrases such as this, and it would have been a common pattern in the Gaspé logging camps where Bolduc first performed publicly.