Trenet died on Sunday in hospital at Creteil near Paris, following a second stroke. He had been in hospital since suffering his first attack last week. Although best known for the haunting melody of ...

PARIS — Legendary singer and songwriter Charles Trenet, whose fanciful ballads and poetic love songs captured the hearts of the French for more than six decades, has died of a stroke. He was 87.

Charles Trenet, celebrated for six decades in France as composer and singer, has died aged 87 in a Paris hospital as a result… Charles Trenet, celebrated for six decades in France as composer and ...

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 ...

PARIS, Feb. 19 -- French superstar singer Charles Trenet, whose voice launched a thousand songs, died in a Paris hospital early Monday, after suffering two strokes. He was 87. Dubbed the "singing fool ...

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Georges El Assidi, French singer-songwriter Charles Trenet's former secretary and sole heir, appeared in court Friday in a law suit against a Danish firm he accuses of stealing valuable objects and ...

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 ...

The French singer and songwriter Charles Trenet has died at the age of 87. He wrote nearly a thousand songs -- including the haunting classic "La Mer". A poet, painter, novelist and film star, Charles ...