1. Renaud appeared in several films, including Claude Berri's adaptation of Germinal in 1993.
13 Facts About Renaud
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Fresh out of school, Renaud was determined to become an actor.
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Renaud has ventured into regional music and language, such as the language of Marseille in La Belle de Mai, the north with Renaud cante el' Nord and even Corsican polyphonics in "Lolito lolita".
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On 26 January 2016, on his website, Renaud released "Toujours debout", the first track from his new studio album yet to be released.
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On 8 April 2016, Renaud released a studio album, Toujours debout but oddly sold under the simple title Renaud.
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Renaud was born at 03:30 in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, ten minutes after his brother David.
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Renaud's father Olivier Sechan, born to a Protestant Languedoc family from the Cevennes and Montpellier, was a novelist and children's writer.
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Renaud's grandfather was the scholar and Hellenist Louis Sechan, who taught at the Sorbonne.
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Renaud's mother is the daughter of a coalminer from the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region.
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Renaud dedicated part of his work to his familial roots, singing traditional songs in the regional Picard language and playing the part of Etienne Lantier in Germinal, a film based on the famous Emile Zola novel.
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Renaud is the sixth of eight children born to his father.
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Renaud has two brothers: David, his fraternal twin, and the writer Thierry Sechan, as well as two sisters.
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Renaud has two half-sisters and a half-brother, children of his father and his first wife.