Saint-Germain-des-Près has lost its muse.
Juliette Gréco has just left us.
With her warm and sensual voice, for some seven decades, she brought the words of the most subtle poets of French song to life.
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Will there be one after Juliette Gréco in Paname, on the terrace of Café de Flore and Deux Magots where her friends Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir liked to stroll?
Perhaps, as she will have embodied the place and its history.
At the start of the 1950s existentialism found its spellbinding narrator.
On music often composed by Joseph Kosma, Serge Gainsbourg, Guy Béart, Gérard Jouannest ... she will run through the streets the verses of Jacques Prévert, Léo Ferré, Charles Trenet, Raymond Queneau, Jean-Max Rivière, Georges Brassens, Boris Vian, Jacques Brel ...
The great fortune teller of French songs, statufie during her lifetime by Nicolas Peyrac in the 1970s in
Et mon père
, was a monument of charm and mischief.
A pretty kid
who whispered
Undress me
, who described the loves of
a little fish and a little bird
, who painted a
scoundrel Paris
, who will inspire, with all due respect, a
Javanese woman
to a cursed poet
.
Under the sky of Paris
,
Le Figaro
, from
Si tu imagines
aux
Vieux Amants
via
L'Âme des poètes
, takes us on a journey into a world of freedom, that of Juliette Gréco.
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1950:
Si tu t'imagines
, poem by Raymond Queneau, music by Joseph Kosma
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1951:
Lost Love
, lyrics by Georges Neveux and music by Joseph Kosma
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1951:
Sous le ciel de Paris
, theme of the film
Sous le ciel de Paris
, lyrics by Jean Dréjac and music by Hubert Giraud
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1951:
I am as I am
, lyrics by Jacques Prévert and music by Joseph Kosma
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1952:
Les Feuilles mortes
, theme of the film
Les Portes de la nuit
, lyrics by Jacques Prévert and music by Joseph Kosma
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1958:
Bonjour tristesse
, theme of the film
Bonjour tristesse
based on the novel by Françoise Sagan, words by Henri Lemarchand and Jacques Datin, music by Georges Auric
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1961:
Il ya plus après
... in duet with Guy Béart, lyrics and music by Guy Béart
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1961:
Jolie Môme
, lyrics and music by Léo Ferré
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1962:
Paris Canaille
, lyrics and music by Léo Ferré
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1963:
La Javanaise
, lyrics and music by Serge Gainsbourg
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1964:
L'Âme des poètes
by Charles Trenet
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1966:
A small fish, a small bird
, words by Jean-Max Rivière and music by Gérard Bourgeois
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1967:
Undress me
, lyrics by Robert Nyel and music by Gaby Verlor
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1971:
La Chanson des vieux amants
, lyrics by Jacques Brel and music by Gérard Jouannest