Pierre-Louis Picard
(CHANSONNIERS)
81 Rue Caulaincourt, 75018 Paris, France
Chansonniers were masters of a whole range of talents, as natural communicators they employed their skills as singers, actors, storytellers and comics. Pierre-Louis Picard was one of the rarer chansonniers who came from a background of writing, journalism and poetry. A disciple of Charles Cros, he was best known for his poetry. In 1944 he published the very successful Montmartre village de Paris. A book containing 25 watercolours by André Fau and poems by Picard. He was an artillery officer during the first forays of WW2. A strong live performer, he appeared at popular haunts for chansonniers, including the Lapin Agile, Caveau de la République, and Cabaret de la Lune Rousse.

Pierre Reynal
(COMÉDIENS)
73ter Rue Lamarck, 75018 Paris, France
Actor Pierre Reynal interpreted the works of the great writers on the Parisian stage, from Fiodor Dostoïevski at the Théâtre de l’Atelier to John Steinbeck at the Théâtre Hébertot. A highlight of his would be playing the role of Chereas in Albert Camus’ Caligula, directed by Camus himself, at the Théâtre de Paris in 1957. A year later he toured with the TNP (Theatre National Populaire), playing a lead role at the Broadway Theatre, New York, in Alfred de Musset’s Lorenzaccio. Perhaps Reynal is best known by a generation of performers as a teacher. Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux said of him “He was an extraordinary man because he gave me responsibility for the truth of a role and taught me how to achieve depth of interpretation.”

Patrick Lemaitre
(COMEDIENS)
79 Rue Lamarck, 75018 Paris, France
Patrick Lemaitre (b.1949) began his career at the age of 8, in the film Le Grand Chef with Fernandel. He made appearances on the Paris stage at venues like the Théâtre de la Madeleine and Théâtre Marigny but it was on TV where he made more of an impression. He featured in the epic TV detective drama Les cinq dernières minutes and Le théâtre de la jeunesse, both in the 1960s. Alongside his acting career he was an accomplished singer and composer, writing songs for Johnny Hallyday, Eddy Mitchell, Céline Dion, Enrico Macias and Sheila.

Pierre Collet
(COMÉDIENS)
83 Rue Lamarck, 75018 Paris, France
Actor Pierre Collet appeared in multiple episodes of the long running detective TV series Les cinq dernières minutes, just like his Montmartre neighbours Raymond Souplex and Patrick Lemaitre (who lived two doors away). Far from a one trick pony, his cinema career was just as impressive, with a career that stretched from 1943 to 1976. He was also the first French voice of Scooby-Doo. Scooby dooby doo!!!!

Raymond Ruer and Jacqueline Perez
(Piano)
61 Rue Caulaincourt, 75018 Paris, France
Ye-ye singer Jacqueline Perez and pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer Raymond Ruer released 4 EPs in the 1960s. Ruer would go on to release a range of deliciously lowbrow music, with LPs of popular hits rearranged and played by his own orchestra. He would take it a step further in the 1970s, scoring and recording the soundtrack for erotic films, including Bananes mécaniques (1973), and Prickly Problems (1974).

Germaine Delbat
(COMÉDIENNES)
56 Rue Caulaincourt, 75018 Paris, France
Actress Germaine Delbat studied under the tutorship of Charles Dullin and René Simon. One of her most notable theatrical roles was that of the governess Charlotte in the play Oscar (directed by Claude Magnier). First performed at the Théâtre de l’Athénée, it ran continuously from 1958 to 1972. She made her film debut in 1949 in Les Dieux du dimanche (directed by René Lucot), and her last film, Les Deux Crocodiles (directed by Joël Séria), was shot a year before her death in 1988.

Andréa Guiot
(ARTISTES LYRIQUES)
59 Rue Caulaincourt, 75018 Paris, France
Operatic soprano Andréa Guiot made her stage debut in 1955 at the Opéra de Nancy, portraying Marguerite in Gounod’s Faust. She then joined the Opéra-Comique in Paris where she appeared as Antonia in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann and became a regular with the company from 1957 to 1972. In 1959 she became a member of the Opéra de Paris where she would sing leading roles in the French and Italian repertoire. She performed the world premiere of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires in 1965. After a career that included performing in major opera houses in France, Europe, and the Americas, she retired from the stage, and became a voice teacher at the Conservatoire de Paris.

Roland Lesaffre
(COMÉDIENS)
57 Rue Caulaincourt, 75018 Paris, France
Roland Lesaffre (1927-2009) joined the Resistance during WW2 and then the marines, where he was a champion boxer. He studied under actor Maurice Escande, breaking onto the film scene in 1950 with the help of director Marcel Carné, with whom he would have a close relationship with. For the next 40 years he appeared regularly in films for renowned directors like Carné, Sacha Guitry, Alfred Hitchcock, Jean-Pierre Melville and Henri Decoin. He was married from 1956 to 1962 to actress Yoko Tani (who we met on Walk 9 – Moulin Rouge), and then with actress Tania Busselies. He is buried in the cimetière Saint-Vincent, at the foot of the Montmartre hill, in the same grave as Marcel Carné.

Anne-Marie Carriere
(CHANSONNIERS)
53 Rue Caulaincourt, 75018 Paris, France
The holder of a law degree, Anne-Marie Carriere worked in a tax office before becoming a popular actress, comedian, singer, and author. She was one of the few female chansonniers, a profession dominated by her male colleagues. Regular Parisians haunts were Cabaret des Noctambules, Théâtre des Deux nes, Caveau de la République, and Théâtre de Dix heures. She hosted several radio and television programmes, and appeared in a handful of films. As an author she won the Grand Prix de l’Humour in 1963, for her book the Dictionnaire des hommes. The small square at the intersection of rue Lepic and rue Joseph de Maistre in Montmartre is named Place Anne-Marie-Carrière.

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