Performer of "Mon amant de Saint-Jean", Lucienne Delyle has gone down in history
with a typically Parisian repertoire. Lucienne Henriette Delache was born in
Paris on April 16, 1913, and was orphaned as a child. She studied to become a
pharmacy assistant and tried her luck in singing competitions when, in 1939, she
came to the attention of a Radio-Cité talent contest, singing "Le Fanion de la
Légion". Encouraged by the show's host and artistic director of the Polydor
label, Jacques Canetti, the singer, who initially took the name Lucienne Delyne,
appeared on the program Le Music-...