PARIS — Legendary singer and songwriter Charles Trenet, whose fanciful ballads and poetic love songs captured the hearts of the French for more than six decades, has died of a stroke. He was 87.

Trenet died on Sunday in hospital at Creteil near Paris, following a second stroke. He had been in hospital since suffering his first attack last week. Although best known for the haunting melody of ...

Singer-songwriter Charles Trenet, a legend in his native France, died in a Paris hospital Feb. 18, following a stroke two weeks before. He was 87. Trenet’s compositions include “La Mer” (The Sea), ...

French singer whose 'La Mer' was recorded 4,000 times, and who faced accusations of collaboration and orgies CHARLES TRENET, the singer and songwriter who has died aged 87, maintained for more than 60 ...

Louis Charles Augustin Georges Trenet (18 May 1913 – 19 February 2001) was a renowned French singer-songwriter who composed both the music and the lyrics to nearly a thousand songs over a career that ...

Charles Trenet, celebrated for six decades in France as composer and singer, has died aged 87 in a Paris hospital as a result… Charles Trenet, celebrated for six decades in France as composer and ...

The French singer and songwriter Charles Trenet has died at the age of 87. He wrote nearly a thousand songs -- including the haunting classic "La Mer". A poet, painter, novelist and film star, Charles ...