Composer Charles Dumont with Edith Piaf in the early 1960s: she had previously dismissed him as ‘a mechanical songwriter of no great talent’ - Jean MAINBOURG/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images ...
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Songwriter and singer Charles Dumont, who composed the song "Non, je ne regrette rien" ("No, I do not regret anything") made world famous by Edith Piaf, has died aged 95, his partner told AFP Monday.