Georges Brassens

Known for ActingBorn 1921-10-22Died 1981-10-29Sète, Hérault, France

Georges Charles Brassens (22 October 1921 – 29 October 1981) was a French singer-songwriter and poet. As an iconic figure in France, he achieved fame through his elegant songs with their harmonically complex music for voice and guitar and articulate, diverse lyrics. He is considered one of France's most accomplished postwar poets. He has also set to music poems by both well-known and relatively obscure poets, including Louis Aragon (Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux), Victor Hugo (La Légende de la Nonne, Gastibelza), Paul Verlaine, Jean Richepin, François Villon (La Ballade des Dames du Temps Jadis), and Antoine Pol (Les Passantes). During World War II, he was forced by the Germans to work in a labor camp at a BMW aircraft engine plant in Basdorf near Berlin in Germany (March 1943). Here Brassens met some of his future friends, such as Pierre Onténiente, whom he called Gibraltar because he was "steady as a rock." They would later become close friends. After being given ten days' sick leave in France, he decided not to return to the labor camp. Brassens took refuge in a small cul-de-sac called "Impasse Florimont," in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, a popular district, where he lived for several years with its owner, Jeanne Planche, a friend of his aunt. Planche lived with her husband Marcel in relative poverty: without gas, running water, or electricity. Brassens remained hidden there until the end of the war five months later, but ended up staying for 22 years. Planche was the inspiration for Brassens's song Jeanne. He wrote and sang, with his guitar, more than a hundred of his poems. Between 1952 and 1976, he recorded fourteen albums that include several popular French songs such as Les copains d'abord, Chanson pour l'Auvergnat, La mauvaise réputation, and Mourir pour des idées. Most of his texts are tinged with black humour and are often anarchist-minded. In 1967, he received the Grand Prix de Poésie of the Académie française. Apart from Paris and Sète, he lived in Crespières (near Paris) and in Lézardrieux (Brittany). Brassens was born in Sète, a commune in the Hérault department of the Occitanie region, to a French father and an Italian mother from the town of Marsico Nuovo (in the province of Potenza, Basilicata). ... Source: Article "Georges Brassens" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.Read more

Movies & web series

The Square

Georges Brassens - Elle est à toi cette chanson 1954 à 1979

Georges Brassens - Live à Bobino

Apostrophes

Charles Trenet, l'enchanteur

Georges Brassens : Elle est à toi cette chanson

Brassens by Brassens

Le Grand Échiquier

Discorama

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

Numéro un

Cavanna, jusqu'à l'ultime seconde j'écrirai

Champs-Elysées

The Gates of Paris

Effedia - Sulla mia cattiva strada

30 millions d'amis

Émilie Jolie

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Midi trente

Françoise et Udo...

Sacrée soirée

#Merci Brassens

Boris Vian, un cœur qui battait trop fort

Georges Brassens, les meilleures chansons

Archives secrètes

L'affaire Matzneff

Les passantes

Le regard de Georges Brassens

Brassens est en nous

Jake on the Box

Georges Brassens chez lui à Paris

Les métiers d'autrefois : Toi ! L'Auvergnat... Dernier Paysan !

Système 2

Pourquoi t'as les cheveux blancs...

Cadet Rousselle

Brel, Brassens, Ferré, trois hommes sur la photo

France, Song

CELÌÀNTÀNGÓ