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Patachou

Patachou
  • Name: Patachou
  • Birthday: 1918-06-10
  • Also known as: Henriette Ragon
  • Place of birth: Paris, France
  • Popularity: 0.061
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

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Title Release date
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