Charles Dumont, composer of Edith Piaf’s Non, Je ne Regrette Rien, dies at 95

Singer-songwriter also composed melodies for stars including Dalida, Jacques Brel and Barbra Streisand

Charles Dumont composed melodies for French and international stars ranging from Dalida to Jacques Brel, Juliette Gréco and Barbra Streisand. But the singer-songwriter, who has died aged 95, will for ever be associated with one song in particular.

Dumont, a little-known musician and trumpeter by training, was aged 31 when, with the lyricist Michel Vaucaire, he knocked on the door of perhaps France’s best-known singer on the Boulevard Lannes in Paris in October 1960.