Jacques Chazot

Biography

Jacques Chazot, (b. 25 September 1928 in Locmiquélic (Morbihan), d. 12 July 1993 in Monthyon (Seine-et-Marne) was a French dancer and socialite. He joined Opéra de Paris in 1947 as a dancer. In 1956, he joined Opéra-Comique. The same year, he wrote Les Carnets de Marie-Chantal, creating a character who is the archetype of the snobbish socialite. He was a very close friend of Françoise Sagan, Juliette Gréco, Régine, Claude Bessy, Hassan II among others and a companion of Coco Chanel. He became famous through television, dancing in many television shows of the 1970s. He was at the time one of…