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Georges Brassens

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2001 - Giants of Jazz Play Brassens

2001 - Il n'y a d'honnête que le bonheur : Les débuts de Brassens

2001 - La Mauvaise Réputation

1996 - Les Copains d'abord

1984 - Brassens chante Bruant, Colpi, Musset, Nadaud, Norge

1976 - Volume 12 : Don Juan

1973 - Brassens in Great Britain: Live 73

1972 - Volume 11 : Fernande

1969 - Volume 10 : La Religieuse

1966 - Volume 9 : Supplique pour être enterré à la plage de Sèt

1965 - Volume 8 : Les Copains d'abord

1965 - Volume 7 : Les Trompettes de la renommée

1965 - Volume 1 : La Mauvaise Réputation

1965 - Volume 3 : Chanson pour l'Auvergnat

1965 - Volume 2 : Les Amoureux des bancs publics

1965 - Volume 6 : Le Mécréant

1965 - Volume 5 : Le pornographe

1965 - Volume 4 : Je me suis fait tout petit

1964 - Nº10 : Les Copains d'abord

1962 - Nº9 : Les Trompettes de la renommée

1961 - Nº8 : Georges Brassens, à la basse : Pierre Nicolas

1960 - Nº7 : Georges Brassens

1958 - Nº6 : Georges Brassens

1957 - Nº5 : Georges Brassens et sa guitare

1956 - Nº4 : Georges Brassens et sa guitare

1954 - Nº3 : Georges Brassens, sa guitare et les rythmes

1953 - Nº2 : Georges Brassens interprète ses dernières compositi

1952 - Nº1 : Georges Brassens chante... les chansons poétiques (.

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1921

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Brassens was born in Sète, a town in southern France near Montpellier. Now an iconic figure in France, he achieved fame through his elegant songs with their harmonically complex music for voice and guitar and articulate, diverse lyrics; indeed, he is considered one of France's most accomplished postwar poets. He has also set to music poems by both well-known and relatively obscure poets, including Louis Aragon (Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux), Victor Hugo (La Légende de la Nonne, Gastibelza), Jean Richepin, François Villon (La Ballade des Dames du Temps Jadis), and Antoine Pol (Les Passantes).
During World War II, he was forced by the Germans to work in a labor camp at a BMW aircraft engine plant in Basdorf near Berlin in Germany (March 1943). Here Brassens met some of his future friends, such as Pierre Onténiente, whom he called Gibraltar because he was "steady as a rock." They would later become close friends.
After being given ten days' leave in France, he decided not to return to the labour camp. Brassens took refuge in a slum called "Impasse Florimont," in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, where he lived for several years with its owner, Jeanne Planche, a friend of his aunt. Planche lived with her husband Marcel in relative poverty: without gas, running water, or electricity. Brassens remained hidden there until the end of the war five months later, but ended up staying for 22 years. Planche was the inspiration for Brassens's song Jeanne.
Apart from Paris and Sète, he lived first in Crespières (near Paris) and latterly in Lezardrieux (Brittany).