BIOGRAPHY :
Charles Trenet is né18 May 1913 in Narbonne in the Aude (France) 13 avenue Charles Trenet (formerly rue Anatole France, this address is the museum Charles Trenet). His parents divorced in 1920, Charles was placed in a boarding school where he will be expelled for misconduct in 1928. He joined his mother in Germany and in Narbonne. During this period he became interested in poetry and wrote his first texts. In the early thirties, he moved to Paris and is engaging in a film studio. He met some big names from the arts of the time (Jean Cocteau, Antonin Artaud, etc..), And confidence in him. It occurs in several night clubs and eventually to make a name with the song "Without You Who Pass Me See".

Before the war, Charles Trenet will deliver some of the most famous titles: "Y'a D'la Joie", I sing, "Blue Flower". At this time he received his nickname Singing Fool. During the occupation period, as he sings of his protest song "Douce France". After the liberation, Charles Trenet moved to the United States where he will have good success. He returned to France in 1954 and knows a successful second career with the titles "La Mer" or "Nationnal 7. The Sixties are dark enough for Charles Trenet who was accused in 1963 of having sex with two young German of 20 years (the majority is 21 years in 1963). Guilty by the court that the murder case goes deep and it goes away from the arts for a few years. It is in the early seventies and never left the scene. On 19 February 2001, Charles Trenet dies of old age at the age of 87ans. Inventor of the modern song, this great poet leaves almost a thousand songs for posterity.