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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PARIS, Feb. 19 -- French superstar singer Charles Trenet, whose voice launched a thousand songs, died in a Paris hospital early Monday, after suffering two strokes. He was 87. Dubbed the "singing fool ...

Portrait of Charles Trenet. Twenty years after his death, this documentary offers a new look at the artist. When, in 1956, the singer appeared on television, he was 43 years old. And it is a man of 60 ...