Charles Aznavour and Leonard Laconte

The Songster and the Poet

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Sometime in the past, in January of that year, Leonard invited me to attend a concert at L’Olympia, Paris. He told me the name of the artist who was appearing. I was seventeen, and the name he mentioned meant nothing to me.

I’d met Leonard almost a year earlier, and we had become great friends, despite a nearly twenty-five years age…