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Early life and familyJuliette Gréco was born in Montpellier to a Corsican father and a mother who became active in the Résistance, in the Hérault département of southern France.
She was raised by her maternal grandparents.
Gréco also became involved in the Résistance, and was caught but not deported because of her young age.
She moved to Saint-Germain-des-Prés in 1946 after her mother left the country for Indochina.Bohemian lifestyleGréco became a devotee of the bohemian fashion of some intellectuals of post-war France.
Jean-Paul Sartre said of Gréco that she had "millions of poems in her voice".
She was known to many of the writers and artists working in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Boris Vian.Gréco spent the post liberation years frequenting the Saint Germain cafes, immersing herself in political and philosophical Bohemian culture.
As a regular figure at music and poetry venues like Le Tabou on Rue Dauphine, Greco became acquainted with Miles Davis and Jean Cocteau, even being given a role in Cocteau’s film Orphée in 1949.
That same year, she began a new singing career with a number of well-known French writers writing lyrics; Raymond Queneau's "Si tu t’imagines" was one of her earliest songs to become popular.Je Me Souviens De ToutIn 2009 her latest album, Je Me Souviens De Tout, was released.
To mark the occasion, Gréco, accompanied by her husband Gérard Jouannest on the piano, and Jean-Louis Matinier on the accordion gave four concerts at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in early June.Fiction TVIn the late 1960s she featured in the TV serial Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre.
This gloomy character was so strongly connected with Gréco, that she brought it with herself for the rest of her life and, in 2001, she was included in the cast of the movie remake with the same title Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre.Personal lifeShe married three times: to actor Philippe Lemaire (1953–1956; one daughter, Laurence-Marie Lemaire, b.
1954), actor Michel Piccoli (1966–1977), and pianist [[fr:Gérard Jouannest|Gérard Jouannest (French)\]\] (since 1988).She also had affairs with Patrick Leigh Fermor and Miles Davis.LegacyGréco was portrayed by actress Anna Mouglalis in the film Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque) (2010).The Canadian band Library Voices described Gréco's relationship with Miles Davis in their song "Be My Juliette Gréco, Paris 1949" from their album Summer of Lust.Autobiography1982: Jujube (published in French), Stock.