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Biography
Cora Vaucaire was a French singer-songwriter born, Geneviève Collin, on July, 1918 and died on September 17, 2011 in Paris. Nicknamed by the journalist Maurice Ciantar : the «  White Lady of Saint-Germain-des-Prés », she also performed in her beginnings under the pseudonym of Michèle Dax. Long accustomed to playing Jacques Prévert's texts on stage, (she was the creator of « Les Feuilles mortes », she gradually established herself as one of the most subtle interpreters of French song, Léo Ferré (Les Forains) as well as the Quebecer Raymond Lévesque (Quand les hommes vivront d'amour), making Barbara known at a time when she didn't dare to sing her own texts (Dis, quand reviendras-tu ?, Attendez que ma joie revienne),

Defending an uncompromising repertoire, she covered songs from the Middle Ages (La Complainte du Roy Renaud, Le Roi a fait battre tambour), created La Complainte de la Butte in the film French Cancan by Jean Renoir in 1955 and performed Trois petites notes de musique in the film Une aussi longue absence by Henri Colpi on a screenplay by Gérard Jarlot and Marguerite Duras, Palme d'or at the Cannes Film Festival 1961. This film forced her to come out of a particularly dark period by making her gather, in a few hours, the forces that were left to sing the famous lament with realism when the film was already programmed with another interpreter.

She sang songs from the café-concert repertoire: Harry Fragson (Je ne peux pas), Yvette Guilbert (Quand on vous aime comme ça), and added (Le Temps des cerises); she sang (L'Internationale) in full front of factories on strike. Welcomed in Japan in the 1980s, she showed again in the 1990s in a performance at the peak of her art, at the Olympia in 1991, at the Théâtre Déjazet (Théâtre Libertaire de Paris) in 1992, at the Théâtre de La Comédie des Champs-Élysées in 1997 and at the Théâtre des Bouffes-du-Nord in 1999. She also sang at the Festival du Marais in 1975 and 1981.

It is also worth mentioning her interpretation of several other leading songs, such as: (Le Pont Mirabeau) poem by Guillaume Apollinaire, music by Léo Ferré, (Maintenant que la jeunesse), poem by Louis Aragon, music by Lino Léonardi or (L'Écharpe) lyrics and music by Maurice Fanon.