Singer-songwriter and poet Georges Brassens was a French chanteur in the classic
style, singing chansons - traditional lyric-driven French songs. Brassens
recorded 14 albums in a recording career spanning some 25 years, his final
studio album being the 1982 release Georges Brassens Chante Les Chansons De Sa
Jeunesse on which the singer covered a number of classic French standards. An
anarchist at heart, Brassens went AWOL from a German labour camp in 1943 and,
after making his way back to France, took refuge in a working class district of
Paris. He planned to hide there until the...