Known for
Acting
Born
June 10, 1918
Birthplace
Paris, France
Died
April 30, 2015 (aged 96)
Henriette Ragon (10 June 1918 – 30 April 2015), better known as Patachou, was a French singer and actress. She was an Officier of the Légion d'honneur.
Born in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, Henriette Ragon began her working life as a typist, then a factory worker, a shoeseller and an antique dealer.
In 1948, with her husband Jean Billon she took over a cabaret-restaurant in Montmartre, called Patachou. (Their son Pierre Billon had some success as a singer in the 1970s and wrote J'ai oublié de vivre for Johnny Hallyday.) She began to sing in the bistro, and journalists began to call her Patachou after the name of her cabaret (pâte-à-choux means cream puff dough). Georges Brassens sang t...
2020
as Self (archive footage)
2001
2001
as Marguerite
2001
as Geneviève
2000
as Mathilde Firmin
2000
as Blind old lady
1999
as Marguerite
1996
as Emilie Sagglia
1996
as Madeleine
1995
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as Madame Cygne
1993
as Mme. Meynard
1990
as Alice
1990
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as Madame Ambrogiano
1989
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as Meyrals
1986
as Mme Coppercage
1984
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