Live in Paris

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It's certainly impossible, but we'll take the risk anyway, because this "Live In Paris" presents her to us at her peak: eight tracks recorded at the Olympia between October 1956 and June 1957, and four others at Bobino, in March 1961. The one who was then beginning a career in cinema (whose highly ephemeral nature she did not yet anticipate) was then at the height of her ascent. Gone were the lean years and the Tabou. Now firmly established at the forefront of the great interpreters of French Chanson, we find her here singing Desnos, Queneau, and Mac Orlan, alongside Brel, Trénet, Ferré, and Brassens. And it's almost as if we were there: starting with a rare duet with Eddie Constantine, she is accompanied throughout by the quartet led by the piano of the faithful Henri Patterson and the accordion of Freddy Balta. In addition to Ferré's famous "Jolie Môme", she delivers her celebrated version of Queneau and Cosma's "Si Tu T'Imagines", as well as Brel's "On N'Oublie Rien", and, notably, Brassens' "Chanson Pour l'Auvergnat".