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 ...

Singer-songwriter Charles Trenet, a legend in his native France, died in a Paris hospital Feb. 18, following a stroke two weeks before. He was 87. Trenet’s compositions include “La Mer” (The Sea), ...