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Jacques Grello

Jacques Grello (31 July 1911-7 March 1978) was a French actor and singer. Born in Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine in the Seine-Saint Denis department, he became a chansonnier and composed left-wing music which joked that the four safest professions for his children would be cafe owner, priest, policeman, and prostitute; which told the comedic tale of a worker who got drunk at a bistro and joined a political meeting in Lille which included the left-wing politicians Emile Basly and Zephirin Camelinat (Le Grand métingue du Métropolitain), and making fun of the religious concept of sins by saying that laziness was the sin that was least tiring. He died in 1978.

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