wrote and performed about 200 songs which reflected his political views, his affection for the poet and novelist Louis Aragon, and his love for his adopted Ardeche region.
Born in a Parisian suburb as Jean Tenenbaum, the moustachioed Ferrat traced his left-wing sympathies to a communist resistance fighter who saved him during the Nazi occupation of France in World War II.
from The Citizen: French singer Jean Ferrat dead at 79
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