Leo Ferre

One of French pop's most poetic songwriters, Georges Brassens was also a highly acclaimed and much-beloved performer in his own right. Not only a brilliant manipulator of language and a feted poet in his own right, Brassens was also renowned for his subversive streak, satirizing religion, class, social conformity, and moral hypocrisy with a wicked glee. Yet beneath that surface was a compassionate concern for his fellow man, particularly the disadvantaged and desperate. His personal politics were forged during the Nazi occupation, and while his views on freedom bordered on anarchism, his songs expressed those convictions more subtly than those of his contemporary, Léo Ferré.

Paul Verlaine est mort le 8 janvier 1896.
Son cercueil descendra le boulevard Saint Michel sous la neige - sans bruit - suivi de tout ce que Paris peut contenir d'esprit endeuillé ce jour là. Pour parler de ce poète vilain et sublime : Francis Carco, Paul Fort, Henri Guillemin, Marguerite Moréno, Léon-Paul Fargue, Paul Léautaud…