Michel Valette (born June 14, 1928 in Colmar, France) is a cabaret performer, actor, composer, cartoonist and writer.
In 1954, he created the cabaret La Colombe in Paris in the Ile de la Cité, and over the ten years that followed, he was beginning to make their more than 200 artists, including Guy Béart, Anne Sylvestre, Pierre Perret, Jean Ferrat, Maurice Fanon, Francesca Solleville, Helène Martin, Jean Vasca, Henri Gougaud, Georges Moustaki, Marc Ogeret, Avron and Claude Philippe Evrard, Bernard Haller, Henri Guybet or Romain Bouteille.
In 1964, he was artistic director of the Cabaret Arsouille Milord. It depicts reviewed in the first part and program starring Catherine Sauvage, Serge Gainsbourg, Guy Béart and Helen Martin.
In 1969, he founded the SDA Mouffe (Service Diffusion Artistique) of the House for all and the hosts for four and a half years at the same time he is responsible for the administration of the old Theatre Mouffetard
In 1975, we find in movies in "Une partie de plasir" of Claude Chabrol, as well as in films by Jean Delannoy and Paul Vecchiali (among others) as well as in films for television. Then at Chaillot theater in 1989 where he played the Duke of Rochefort in D'Artagnan, directed by Jerome Savary with Christophe Malavoy. It is part of the "théâtre des cinquante" led by Andreas Voutsinas. He played at the "La Bruyère" theatre and toured in Le Malade Imaginaire, directed by Karim Salah. He played the role of Jacques Béralde Fabbri and the Sick. He also plays in Karamazov opened in Cartoucherie de Vincennes and La Rochelle, directed by Anita Picchiarini. It takes the role of Starets.
In 1988, he performed in Do that love, directed by Kazem Shahryari. He went to Arlequin and recorded his first 45 rounds to be followed by several CDs: "Michel Valette sings Gilbert Hennevic" (Jacques Canetti home), "De la Colombe the Colombière", "my heart to sing" and "I met wonderful people."
Meanwhile, he wrote, "De Verdun à Cayenne" (ISBN 978-2-84654-150-3)(From Verdun to Cayenne), the true story of Robert Porchet, peace activist from the beginning of the century who, after three years of military service, can be found on the battlefields of the First World War. His desertion after the Battle of Verdun, his capture and his life in the penal colony of cayenne until the War Resisters' International succeeds to get shorten his sentence, and obtained he could get back to France.
From 1993 to 2000 he founded and animated in Essonne, the cultural association "Chant'Essonne" whose goal is to spread and promote the French song in Essonne. He made known artists defending French song quality.
He recently wrote a book-document of more than 600 pages: L'histoire de la Colombe ("The History of la Colombe") in which he describes with many anectodes the beginnings of many French singers in the 1960s (i.e. Guy Béart, Anne Sylvestre, Pierre Perret, Jean Ferrat). He is currently rewriting a 400 pages version Le Joli temps de la Colombe to ease a cheaper edition.