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PIERRE DUDAN
Actor, songwriter, pianist and performer, Pierre Dudan was born in Moscow,
Russia, on February 1, 1916, to a Russian mother and a Swiss father. After
teaching French in Moscow, his father was appointed principal of a school in
Switzerland, where the family settled when the 1917 Revolution broke out. After
studying literature, Pierre Dudan began singing in a jazz club and then at the
Bonnet d'Âne cabaret in Lausanne, before moving to Paris in 1936 to perform at
the Bœuf sur le Toit and the Lapin Agile. He wrote his own songs, which he
performed on the piano, and offered "Parti san...
