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Henriette Ragon 1918 - 2015

Henriette Ragon was born in 1918, and died at age 96 years old on April 30, 2015 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine County, Île-de-France France.

Henriette Ragon

Patachou

1918

April 30, 2015

Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine County, Île-de-France, France

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Patachou From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Patachou" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (April 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Born Henriette Ragon 10 June 1918 Paris, France Died 30 April 2015 (aged 96) Neuilly-sur-Seine, France Occupation Singer, actress Spouse(s) Jean Billon Arthur Lesser Children Pierre Billon Henriette Ragon (10 June 1918 – 30 April 2015), better known as Patachou, was a French singer and actress. She was an Officier of the Légion d'honneur. Biography Early life Born in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, Henriette Ragon began her working life as a typist, then a factory worker, a shoeseller and an antique dealer. Patachou In 1948, with her husband Jean Billon she took over a cabaret-restaurant in Montmartre, called Patachou. (Their son Pierre Billon had some success as a singer in the 1970s and wrote J'ai oublié de vivre for Johnny Hallyday.) She began to sing in the bistro, and journalists began to call her Patachou after the name of her cabaret (pâte-à-choux means cream puff dough). Georges Brassens sang there, and together they sang the duet "Maman, papa". She was the first to interpret other songs he composed such as "Le bricoleur", "La chasse aux papillons", etc. The evening she sang them for the first time, she suggested her audience stay to the end of the show and meet the writer of these songs, and Brassens went up on to the Patachou stage for the first time and sang Le Gorille and P..de toi. Sometimes she would collect half-ties (she would snip the neckties of customers reluctant to join in the singing) – Thomas Dewey and Errol Flynn were among her victims. First recordings Her first records were released in 1952. She appeared at the Bobino, a Montparnasse music-hall, toured in France and then further afield. From 1953 onwards, she could be seen on-stage at the Palladium, the Waldorf Astoria, and Carnegie Hall, and throughout the United States. From the beginning of the 1970s she toured Japan and Sweden where 'L'eternal Parigot', with her cheeky Parisian register, was popular. Awards Patachou was made Officier of the Légion d'honneur on 1 January 2009 Death Patachou died on 30 April 2015 at the age of 96. Filmography 1953: Women of Paris by Jean Boyer, Patachou sings "Brave Margot" by Georges Brassens 1983: Le disparu du 7 octobre, TV film by Jacques Ertaud: "Blanche Auroux" 1986: la Rumba by Roger Hanin 1990: Night Of The Fox 1993: Cible émouvante [fr] by Pierre Salvadori: Madame Meynard 1993: Les Grandes Marées by Jean Sagols: Sophie Leclerc 1999: Les Acteurs by Bertrand Blier: Blind old lady 1999: Pola X de Leos Carax: Marguerite 2001: Belphégor, le fantôme du Louvre by Jean-Paul Salomé: Geneviève 2001: Drôle de Félix by Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau: Mathilde, Grandmother 2003: San-Antonio by Frédéric Auburtin: Ruth Booz
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