Renaud

Person · Open Library

Born

1952

Works

39

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Film & TV

Acting · Paris, France

Renaud Pierre Manuel Séchan, known as Renaud, born in Paris on 11 May 1952, is a popular French singer, songwriter and actor. His characteristically 'broken' voice makes for a very distinctive vocal style. Several of his songs are popular classics in France, including the sea tale "Dès que le vent soufflera", the irreverent "Laisse béton", the ballad "Morgane de toi" and the nostalgic "Mistral…

Known for

• Renaud, à cœur perdu — Self (archive footage)2026
• Stars 80 vs Stars 90, la grande battle2025
• Vos 40 chansons préférées des Enfoirés — Self (archive footage)2025
• Gaëtan Roussel : Création éclect!que aux Francofolies de La Rochelle — Self2024
• Renaud, souvenirs, souvenirs — Self2023
• Joyeux anniversaire Renaud — Self2022
• Il était une fois Champs-Élysées — Self (archive footage)2022
• Renaud, le gosse de Paname — Self (archive footage)2021
• Mitterrand, président culturel — Self (archive footage)2021
• Renaud, my brother — Self2021

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

France

Active from

1952

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

235,150

Total plays

5,099,198

Extremely versatile and respected French singer-songwriter. His music is a crossover of folk, rock, blues and punk. Active since the 70s, Renaud has written some very controversial songs during his musical career, the most famous one (to British readers at least) praising all women as being better than men except Margaret Thatcher, saying that if he comes back as a dog in his next life, he will use her as a lampost... He is famously recovering from alcoholism with some degree of success. <a href

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Fast unfolding of communities in large networks

   · 2008 · cited 16,536x

2. Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

   · 2012 · cited 6,740x

3. Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

   · 2016 · cited 4,397x

4. Efficacy and Safety of a Specific Inhibitor of the BCR-ABL Tyrosine Kinase in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia

   · 2001 · cited 4,156x

5. Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger^*

   · 2017 · cited 3,591x

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Key facts

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Renaud in 2017

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Renaud Pierre Manuel Séchan

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Paris, France

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Paris

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Guitar

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1975–present

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Wikidata facts

Mass

85

Image

Renaud, 2017 (cropped).jpg

Height

1.78

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