Yeah, I guess there's a bit of coincidence there, both songs relate back to the 19th century.
Jimmy Brown the Newsboy was written by Bill Hays (Dr. Google tells me his name was "William Shakespeare Hays) and published in about 1875.
The Carter Family did an adaptation written by Doc Carter (Dr. Google again) in about 1928.
Les Trois Cloches was written by Jean Villard, AKA Jean Gilles in 1940 and he was Swiss, not French, and Edith Piaf did it in 1946. Jean Villard/Gilles was born in 1895. (Dr. Google clarified all that for me, I was running on memory before)
I apologise for not being precisely correct with my previous information, but I was running on memory and what I wrote is broadly correct I think.
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