Disques Vogue was a

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record company founded in

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by Léon Cabat and Charles Delaunay in 1947, the year after the American Vogue label ceased. They originally specialized in

, featuring American performers such as Sidney Bechet, Dizzy Gillespie, and Gigi Gryce (sessions reissued on CD under

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's name), in addition to local musicians Django Reinhardt and Martial Solal. In the late 1950s Vogue expanded into

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, recording artists such as Petula Clark. In the 1960s and early 1970s the label added Jacques Dutronc and Françoise Hardy. They licensed recordings by

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for release in Belgium and France and European distribution of Recordings of

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. Vogue Records, a British offshoot, was founded in 1951 and absorbed by English Decca (then separate from the American company) around 1956, but the rights to the name reverted to the French parent in 1962, whereupon Decca renamed its Vogue label Vocalion. A new Disques Vogue sister label was established in Britain as part of the Pye Group. The label's catalogue is now part of

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