Jean-Max Rivière
Jean-Max Rivière (19 October 1937 – 15 November 2025) was a French singer-songwriter. He died on 15 November 2025, at the age of 88.
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Jean-Max Rivière
- Full name
- Jean Max Omer Paul Rivière.
- Born
- 1937 · 9th arrondissement of Paris.
- Died
- 2025 · Royan.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- composer · songwriter · singer · liedermacher
- Fields
- song
- Honours
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
- Languages
- French
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Jean-Max Rivière lived from 19 October 1937 to 15 November 2025 and was a singer-songwriter and singer.
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Jean-Max Rivière was born on 19 October 1937 in Paris, France. Jean-Max Rivière died on 15 November 2025 in Royan (Charente-Maritime).
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Recorded at birth as Jean Max Omer Paul Rivière. Born at 9th arrondissement of Paris in 1937, died in Royan in 2025.
The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are song. Distinctions recorded are Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.
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9th arrondissement of Paris.
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Royan.
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- 1.Demande d'adhésion de Jean-Max Rivière en qualité d'auteur. musee.sacem.fr.
- 2.Jean-Max Rivière, parolier de Brigitte Bardot, Juliette Gréco et France Gall, est mort à 88 ans. Le Monde. 2025-11-16. 2025-11-19.
- 3.Sous les noms de Gérard Cépa et Jean-Max Novrénon.
- 4.Astérix : ils chantent !. Discogs.
- 5.Gerard Bourgeois et Jean Max Rivière - Le Petit Bal gaulois. Ina.fr.
- 6.Jean-Max Rivière. musee.sacem.fr.
- 7.Jean-Max Rivière, l'architecte des plus grandes mélodies de la chanson française, s'est éteint. Le Singulier. 15 novembre 2025.
- 8.Carnet Sud Ouest
- 9.Simplifia
- 10.Chanson inspirée d'articles de presse relatant l'émotion des promeneurs du Jardin des plantes de Paris : une mésange nourrissait les Carassius, poissons rouges du bassin aux Nymphaeaceae, Nymphéas (aujourd'hui disparu, il se trouvait devant la Grande galerie de l'Évolution, galerie de zoologie), sans que le public puisse s'expliquer ce comportement, que les Éthologie, éthologues décrivent comme un report sur les poissons, à la suite de la perte de sa nichée, de l'instinct nourricier de la mésange, déclenché par la similitude entre les lèvres des poissons et les becs larges ouverts des mésangeaux au nid .
- 11.Arrêté du 13 septembre 2016 portant nomination dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
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