Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Poetic Obituaries: As prolific as he was discreet, [Jean] Ferrat

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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