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Encyclopedia > Juliette Gréco

Juliette Gréco (born February 7, 1927) is an actress as well as a very popular chanson singer. February 7 is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Events January 7 - First transatlantic telephone call - New York City to London January 9 - Military rebellion crushed in Lisbon January 14 - Paul Doumer elected president of France January 19 - Britain sends troops to China February 12 - First British troops lad on Shanghai February 14 - Earthquake in Yugoslavia - 700 dead February... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... Chanson is a French word for song, and in English-language contexts is often applied to any song with French words, particularly a cabaret song. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ...


Born to a Corsican father in Montpellier, in the Hérault département of France she came to be one of the stars of the bohemian "in" crowd of post-war France. This article is about the Mediterranean island. ... Location within France Montpellier ( Occitan Montpelhièr) is a city in the south of France. ... Hérault is a département in the southwest of France named after the Hérault River. ... The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France, roughly analogous to British counties and are now grouped into 22 metropolitan and four overseas régions. ... The French Republic or France (French: République française or France) is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. ... Though a Bohemian is a native of the Czech province of Bohemia, a secondary meaning for Bohemian emerged in 19th_century France. ...


A famous description of Juliette Gréco is that her voice "encompasses millions of poems".



 

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