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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.

Translation of quotes on the front cover

Admiration: man needs admiration as well as oxygen. Morally its effects are comparable to those of the famous box of spinach on Mathurin Popeye.

Money: The only justice there is in money is that it gives poor men the security of being loved for themselves.

Faithful: not in the nature of man. Older gentlemen end up confessing publicly that they have been faithful husbands.

Cockerel: homegrown animal, to which the malignant nature has given some of the worst masculine faults: the faculty, the taste for polygamy, primary sexuality and this noisy way of letting the world know – who would want to maybe still sleeping – that he is awake…