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Jacques Chazot, (b. 25 September 1928 in
Jacques Chazot, (b. 25 September 1928 in Locmiquélic
Locmiquélic (; ) is a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in north-western France.
Toponymy
From the Breton ''loc'' which means hermitage (cf.: Locminé) and ''miquélic'' which means Little Michael.
Population
Inhabitants of ...
(Morbihan
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), d. 12 July 1993 in Monthyon
Monthyon () is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department of the Île-de-France region in north-central France.
Notable residents
The Belgian painter Eugène Boch lived in the Villa La Grimpette. In 1959, French actor Jean-Claude Brialy acquir ...
(Seine-et-Marne
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) was a French dancer and socialite
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.
Biography
He joinedOpéra de Paris
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in 1947 as a dancer. In 1956, he joined Opéra-Comique
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. The same year, he wrote ''Les Carnets de Marie-Chantal'', creating a character who is the archetype of the snobbish socialite.
He was a very close friend of Françoise Sagan
Françoise Sagan (; born Françoise Delphine Quoirez; 21 June 1935 – 24 September 2004) was a French playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Sagan was known for works with strong romantic themes involving wealthy and disillusioned bourgeois ch ...
, Juliette Gréco
Juliette Gréco (; 7 February 1927 – 23 September 2020) was a French singer and actress. Her best known songs are "Paris Canaille" (1962, originally sung by Léo Ferré), "La Javanaise" (1963, written by Serge Gainsbourg for Gréco) and "Désh ...
, Régine, Claude Bessy, Hassan II
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among others and a companion of Coco Chanel
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.
He became famous through television, dancing in many television shows of the 1970s. He was at the time one of the few people to appear on television as openly gay.Jacques CHAZOT guest of "Radioscopie de Jacques Chancel", France Inter
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It is the successor to Paris Inter, later known as France I, and created as a merger of the France I and France II networks, first as RTF Inter in October 1963, then ren ...
, moderator: Jacques Chancel, broadcast 11 June 1975
He had oral cancer
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, and died aged 64. In his last years, he lived in a castle of Monthyon, a property in the vicinity of Paris owned by Jean-Claude Brialy
Jean-Claude Brialy (30 March 1933 – 30 May 2007) was a French actor and film director.
Early life
Brialy was born in Aumale (now Sour El-Ghozlane), French Algeria, where his father was stationed with the French Army. Brialy moved to mainland ...
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Bibliography
* ''Les carnets de Marie-Chantal'', Van Moppès, 1956 * ''Sophie Ripaille'', R. Julliard, 1960 * ''Pense-bêtes'', R. Solar, 1964 * ''Chazot Jacques'', Paris, Stock, 1975, 238 p. * ''À nous deux les femmes'', Olivier Orban, 1978 * ''La mémoire des autres'', Mengès, 1982 * ''Marie-Chantal de gauche !'', Mengès, 1983References