Pierre Barouh

Pierre Barouh (19 February 1934, Paris – 28 December 2016, Paris) was a French writer-composer-singer best known for his work on Claude Lelouch's film A Man and a Woman both as actor, and as lyric writer/singer for Francis Lai's music for the film. Élie Barouh, his brother and sister, were raised in Levallois-Perret, (their parents were Turkish-Jewish stallholders selling fabrics), until the outbreak of the Second World War. During the war their parents hid them from the Nazis in Montournais in the Vendée.