Louis Charles Augustin Georges Trenet (18 May 1913 – 19 February 2001) was a renowned French singer-songwriter who composed both the music and the lyrics to nearly a thousand songs over a career that ...

French singer whose 'La Mer' was recorded 4,000 times, and who faced accusations of collaboration and orgies CHARLES TRENET, the singer and songwriter who has died aged 87, maintained for more than 60 ...