Juliette is back tonight on the stage of La Cigale, in Paris. This original continues to explore the sung form with a gluttony never faulted.

She dedicated one of her new titles to the staircase that leads to her Parisian pied-à-terre. "I climb it every morning. From there, I looked at what the stairs evoked and ended up putting together a number of elements that lead to a song. Writing is a story of puzzles, crosswords," she says.