Pierre Laujon
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Pierre Laujon was a French playwright and chanson
nier. He was uncle to the playwright Pierre-Yves Barré
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Chanson
A chanson is in general any lyric-driven French song, usually polyphonic and secular. A singer specialising in chansons is known as a "chanteur" or "chanteuse" ; a collection of chansons, especially from the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, is also known as a chansonnier.-Chanson de geste:The...
nier. He was uncle to the playwright Pierre-Yves Barré
Pierre-Yves Barré
Pierre-Yves Barré was a French vaudevillist and song-writer.-Life:He began life as a lawyer to the French parliament, then court clerk in Pau, but as the nephew of the chansonnier Pierre Laujon moved more and more towards a life in the theatre...
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- Gustave Vapereau, Dictionnaire universel des littératures, Paris, Hachette, 1876, p. 1205