Marche à l'ombre is the fourth studio album by French singer-songwriter Renaud, released in 1980 by Polydor Records.
Marche à l'ombre contains three of Renaud's most popular songs:[citation needed]: "Marche à l'ombre" contains observations and aspersions cast on various characters who walk into the narrator's favorite bar as he relaxes with a pinball-obsessed friend.
"Les Aventures de Gérard Lambert" is the tale of a fictional comic hero, a mobylette rider whose evening is ruined by a mechanical problem and a wise-cracking passerby.
A mock ballad, it is a tortured variety of Franglais, with almost every line containing both English and French words.
"La Teigne" is the story of a youth who has grown up "on the state" ("Il était de l'assistance") who can't make friends and who commits suicide before his 20th birthday.