Charles Dumont composed melodies for French and international stars ranging from Dalida to Jacques Brel, Juliette Gréco and Barbra Streisand. But the singer-songwriter, who has died aged 95, will for ever be associated with one song in particular.
Dumont, a little-known musician and trumpeter by training, was aged 31 when, with the lyricist Michel Vaucaire, he knocked on the door of perhaps France’s best-known singer on the Boulevard Lannes in Paris in October 1960.
