Isabelle Aubret: a champion who bows out
Isabelle Aubret is a champion. She won the French gymnastics championships in 1952. Ten years later, with the song A first love, she brings back to France the Eurovision Song Contest trophy. Throughout her life, she gets up after the obstacles that come in her way. And finally, she has earned her place in the hearts of the French in her sixty-year career.
When Thérèse Coquerelle, her real name, at her 14 years old, was a winder at the factory, she did not imagine that she would rub shoulders with the greatest: Georges Brassens, Jacques Brel and obviously Jean Ferrat who considered her as her little sister. .
His meeting with Aragon, his memories of youth, his state of mind during this tour Last meeting : listen to Isabelle Aubret’s testimony, a few hours before her visit to the Perché Theater in Brienon-sur-Armançon.