Also leaving us this week, also at the age of 95, was Charles Dumont. Most famous for writing the Edith Piat hit “Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien,” Dumont was a singer as well, interpreting his songs with a gruff, lilting gracefulness. (“C’etait le temps, souvenez-vous/le temps des grives aux loups.”) Now he joins those two other Charles’s – Aznavour and Trenet – in the French chanson afterworld.
