PARIS — Legendary singer and songwriter Charles Trenet, whose fanciful ballads and poetic love songs captured the hearts of the French for more than six decades, has died of a stroke. He was 87.

Louis Charles Augustin Georges Trenet (18 May 1913 – 19 February 2001) was a renowned French singer-songwriter who composed both the music and the lyrics to nearly a thousand songs over a career that ...

PARIS, Feb. 19 -- French superstar singer Charles Trenet, whose voice launched a thousand songs, died in a Paris hospital early Monday, after suffering two strokes. He was 87. Dubbed the "singing fool ...