Juliette Gréco embodied French culture like no other artist.
The lady in black, jet-black hair and unchanged figure, had become an ambassador for local songs, the spokesperson for our greatest authors, and the representative of an avant-garde spirit and freedom.
A performer, she has sponsored many artists whose work she defended with passion and determination.
Juliette Gréco had achieved this fragile balance between demand and popularity, without ever making the slightest concession or the smallest compromise.
She died Wednesday, surrounded by her family, in her house in Ramatuelle, at the age of 93.
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Daughter of a Corsican commissioner and a Bordeaux woman who had separated early, Juliette Gréco, born in 1927, had known the horrors of war at a very young age alongside a resistant mother.
She had been interned in Fresnes prison before being released due to her young age, while her mother and older sister were deported to Ravensbrück.
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