People
Patachou
Biography:
Henriette Ragon (10 June 1918 – 30 April 2015), better known as Patachou, was a French singer and actress. She was an Officier of the Légion d'honneur.
Born in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, Henriette Ragon began her working life as a typist, then a factory worker, a shoeseller and an antique dealer.
In 1948, with her husband Jean Billon she took over a cabaret-restaurant in Montmartre, called Patachou. (Their son Pierre Billon had some success as a singer in the 1970s and wrote J'ai oublié de vivre for Johnny Hallyday.) She began to sing in the bistro, and journalists began to call her Patachou after the name of her cabaret (pâte-à-choux means cream puff dough). Georges Brassens... Read More
Movies:
Title | Release date |
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Les Petites Mains as Marguerite | 2001-09-01 |
Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre as Geneviève | 2001-04-03 |
Adventures of Félix as Mathilde Firmin | 2000-04-19 |
Actors as La vielle dame aveugle | 2000-04-05 |
Pola X as Marguerite | 1999-05-12 |
Hold-up en l'air as Emilie Sagglia | 1996-11-29 |
Tendre piège as Madeleine | 1996-05-10 |
Le Cœur étincelant | 1995-01-01 |
Open Season as Madame Cygne | 1993-11-17 |
Wild Target as Mme. Meynard | 1993-08-18 |
Les matins chagrins as Alice | 1990-10-31 |
The Carpathian Mushroom as Madame Ambrogiano | 1990-03-07 |
The Man Who Lived at the Ritz | 1988-11-28 |
Avec sentiment | 1987-09-01 |
La Rumba as Meyrals | 1987-02-18 |
Faubourg St Martin as Mme Coppercage | 1986-12-03 |
Napoleon as Madame Sans-Gêne | 1955-03-25 |
French Cancan as Yvette Guilbert | 1954-12-27 |
Femmes de Paris as Self | 1953-05-17 |