Patachou
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Henriette Ragon (10 June 1918 – 30 April 2015), better known as Patachou, was a French singer and actress, best-known for popularizing Georges Brassens songs by singing them before he became famous. She was an Officier of the Légion d'honneur.
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1918-06-10
- Active to
- 2015-04-30
Discography
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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. 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. 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
Key facts
- Person.image
- Patachou (1961).jpg
- Person.caption
- Patachou in 1961
- Person.name
- Patachou
- Person.birth_name
- Henriette Ragon
- Person.birth_place
- Paris, France
- Person.death_place
- Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
- Person.occupation
- Singer, actress
- Person.spouse
- Jean Billon, Arthur Lesser
- Person.children
- Pierre Billon
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Henriette
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- 12th arrondissement of Paris
- Place of death
- Neuilly-sur-Seine
- Occupation
- film actor
- Languages spoken
- French
- Genre
- song
- Instrument
- voice
- Image
- Patachou (1961).jpg
- Significant event
- funeral
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- date of birth
- 1918-06-10
- date of death
- 2015-04-30
- place of burial
- Père Lachaise Cemetery
- birth name
- Henriette Eugénie Jeanne Ragon
- pseudonym
- Patachou
- Commons category
- Patachou
- start of work period
- 1952-00-00
- end of work period
- 2003-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Biography
- Early life
- Patachou
- Touring
- Death
- Awards
- Recordings
- Filmography
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Henriette Ragon (10 June 1918 – 30 April 2015), better known as Patachou, was a French singer and actress, best-known for popularizing Georges Brassens songs by singing them before he became famous. She was an Officier of the Légion d'honneur.
==Biography==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Patachou” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.