Françoise Dorin

Françoise Andrée Renée Dorin (; 23 January 1928 – 12 January 2018) was a French actor, comedian, novelist, playwright and songwriter. She was most successful in the 1970s, authored about 30 plays and more than 25 books as well as writing songs for various artists. Dorin wrote the song N'avoue jamais which was performed by Guy Mardel on behalf of France at the Eurovision Song Contest 1965. She was appointed Commandeur of the Légion d'honneur, the Officier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the Grand officier de l’ordre national du Mérite. A street in Paris' 17th arrondissement was voted unanimously by the Council of Paris to be named after Dorin following her death.

Personal background Dorin was born in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, on 23 January 1928. She was the daughter of the songwriter René Dorin, She was educated at Cours Hattemer. Dorin was married on 2 October 1958 and later divorced to the actor Jean Poiret and the two had a daughter. On the morning of 12 January 2018, Dorin died at l'hôpital de Courbevoie in Hauts-de-Seine. her debut doing songwriter reviews came at a production of Aveux les plus doux in 1957 at the Théâtre des Deux-Anes. In 1980, she wrote les Lits à une place that sold more than a million copies and l’Intoxe which sold out every evening in Paris. Armelle Héliot of Le Figaro wrote of Dorin that she "wants us to laugh until tears" and kept her sense of cabaret" even as "she unashamedly asserts basic truths, even if she cooks her books like a scrupulous cook, even if she is not afraid of the excesses of the heart, even if she admits wanting to please, we guess, beyond the pretty stories that she recounts – and which she sometimes repeats for her comedies – something of a dull melancholy".