Maxime Le Forestier
Maxime Le Forestier is known for The Car Keys (2003), Les Enfoirés 2015 - Sur la route des Enfoirés (2015), Les Enfoirés 2017 - Mission Enfoirés (2017).
Biography
Maxime Le Forestier (born 10 February 1949 as Bruno Le Forestier) is a French singer-songwriter.
Bruno Le Forestier was born on 10 February 1949 in Paris to father Robert Le Forestier and mother Genevieve (née Lili 1917—2010) who had lived in England. He had two older sisters, Annette (born 1943) and Catherine (born 1946).
His musical training started on the violin. He attended the Lycée Condorcet, where he studied literature.
In 1965, he formed a duo (Cat et Maxime) with his sister Catherine. Playing at cabaret venues on Paris' Left Bank, the pair met and formed a friendship with Georges Moustaki. They were amongst the first artists to cover a number of songs by Moustaki – including Ma Liberté and Ma Solitude. In 1968, Catherine joined Moustaki as a backing singer. Le Forestier began to focus on songwriting and composed Ballade pour un traître which was recorded and released by the French/Italian singer and actor, Serge Reggiani.
Le Forestier continued as part-time singer/songwriter during his military service (beginning 1969) with a parachute regiment (the inspiration for the song Parachutiste). He recorded two songs: Cœur de Pierre, Face de Lune, and La Petite Fugue.
His military service ending September 1970, Le Forestier refocused on his musical career. He developed a folksy style which was enormously popular in the 1970s and 1980s. He and his sister spent the summer of 1971 living in the Castro District of San Francisco at the invitation of his friend, Luc Alexandre. The experience, and meeting Allen Ginsberg, was the inspiration of a popular song, San Francisco.
His first album Mon Frère, released in 1973, contains several pieces that have entered French folklore, including the title song Mon frère, San Francisco, Comme un arbre and Education sentimentale. He toured extensively, both in France and abroad. In 1976, he toured in 14 cities in the USSR. Recently he has gained particular acclaim for his reworkings of the songs of Georges Brassens.
"San Francisco", one of his best known songs, begins with the line: "C'est une maison bleue adossée à la colline" (meaning "It's a blue house with its back to the hill"). In 1971, a young Le Forestier was living in a hippie commune, called "Hunga Dunga", in a blue house situated at 3841 18th Street in San Francisco. The anthemic song was written as a fond tribute to Le Forestier’s housemates and hippie friends, and the names mentioned in the song refer to real people. These include Phil Polizatto, who recalls with great affection Le Forestier’s stay in the blue house, in a critically acclaimed book entitled “Hunga Dunga: Confessions of an Unapologetic Hippie”. In the summer of 2011, the house was repainted from light green to its original blue, and a plaque dedicated to Le Forestier was unveiled by the French Consul, pointing to the cultural importance of the song in French popular culture.
Maxime Le Forestier has participated in Les Enfoirés, the annual concert to raise money for the charity Restaurants du Cœur, since 1995.
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Questions about Maxime Le Forestier
How many Maxime Le Forestier films are in the catalogue?
The CineQuiz catalogue has 20 films with Maxime Le Forestier, from 1995 to 2025.
What was the first Maxime Le Forestier film?
The first Maxime Le Forestier film in the catalogue is The Car Keys, from 2003.
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Known for
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Départ immédiat
2012
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7.0 Vos 40 chansons préférées des Enfoirés
2025
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5.2 The Car Keys
2003
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7.5 Les Enfoirés 2017 - Mission Enfoirés
2017
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8.0 Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
2014
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7.8 Les Enfoirés 2014 - Bon anniversaire Les Enfoirés
2014
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6.0 Les Enfoirés 1995 - Les Enfoirés à l'Opéra-Comique
1995
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7.2 Les Enfoirés 2008 - Les secrets des Enfoirés
2008
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7.2 Les Enfoirés 2016 - Au rendez-vous des Enfoirés
2016
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6.5 Les Enfoirés 2015 - Sur la route des Enfoirés
2015
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7.0 Les Enfoirés 2010 - Les Enfoirés... la Crise de Nerfs
2010
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7.6 Les Enfoirés 1998 - Enfoirés en cœur
1998
Full filmography
27 films — 20 in the catalogue
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7.0
Vos 40 chansons préférées des Enfoirés
2025 · Self (archive footage)
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9.0 M. Eddy & sa tribu
2018 · Self
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7.5
Les Enfoirés 2017 - Mission Enfoirés
2017
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7.2
Les Enfoirés 2016 - Au rendez-vous des Enfoirés
2016 · Self
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6.6 Cavanna, jusqu'à l'ultime seconde j'écrirai
2015 · Self (archive footage)
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6.5
Les Enfoirés 2015 - Sur la route des Enfoirés
2015
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8.0
Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
2014
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Maxime Le Forestier - Olympia 2014
2014 · Self
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7.8
Les Enfoirés 2014 - Bon anniversaire Les Enfoirés
2014
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6.9 Les Enfoirés 2013 - La Boîte à Musique des Enfoirés
2013
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Départ immédiat
2012 · Self
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Les Enfants de la Pop 80's
2012 · Self (archive footage)
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Les Enfoirés 2010 - Les Enfoirés... la Crise de Nerfs
2010
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7.2
Les Enfoirés 2008 - Les secrets des Enfoirés
2008
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Véronique Sanson - Comme ils l'imaginent…
2006 · Self
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7.8 Les Enfoirés, 15 ans d'Enfoirés
2005
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Maxime Le Forestier - Master Serie
2005 · Self (archive footage)
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5.2
The Car Keys
2003 · Fireside Singer
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8.0 Les Enfoirés 2002 - Tous dans le même bateau
2002
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9.0 Autour de la guitare, Olympia 2000
2001 · Self
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8.0 Les Enfoirés 2001 - L'odyssée des Enfoirés
2001
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6.5 Les Enfoirés 2000 - Enfoirés en 2000
2000
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7.3 Les Enfoirés 1999 - Dernière édition avant l'an 2000
1999
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7.6
Les Enfoirés 1998 - Enfoirés en cœur
1998
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6.0 Les Enfoirés 1997 - Le Zénith des Enfoirés
1997
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Les Enfoirés 1995 - Les Enfoirés à l'Opéra-Comique
1995
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7.5 La chaise vide
1975 · Maxime
Series and TV shows
2 titles
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5.7
People data: TMDb.
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