In February 1958, Brel's wife Miche and their two children returned to live in Belgium, while Brel rented a room near Place de Clichy in Paris — a place to stay on those rare occasions when he was not touring.

In May, while touring Canada for the first time, Brel met Félix Leclerc.

* 1978 – Jacques Brel, Belgian singer and actor ( b. 1929 )

* October 9 – Jacques Brel, Belgian singer ( b. 1929 )

In the late 1950s the Scopitone, a visual jukebox, was invented in France and short films were produced by many French artists, such as Serge Gainsbourg, Françoise Hardy, Jacques Brel, and Jacques Dutronc to accompany their songs.

Jacques Brel (; 8 April 1929 – 9 October 1978 ) was a Belgian singer-songwriter who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following in France initially, and later throughout the world.

In French-speaking countries, Brel was also a successful actor, appearing in ten films.

Jacques Brel has sold over 25 million records worldwide, and is the third best-selling Belgian recording artist of all time.

Jacques Romain Georges Brel was born on 8 April 1929 in Schaarbeek, Brussels, Belgium to Romain Brel and Elisabeth Lambertine Brel.

Brel was never a good student, failing many of his exams.

In 1948, Brel also enrolled for part-time military service.

By 1949, Brel became president of La Franche Cordée, and produced a number of benefit plays for the organization, including Saint Exupéry's Le Petit Prince.

While working at La Franche Cordée, Brel met his future wife, Thérèse Michielsen, known to her friends as Miche.

In 1952, Brel began writing songs and performing them at family gatherings and in Brussels ' cabaret circuit.

In January 1953, Brel performed at the cabaret La Rose Noire in Brussels.

The talent scout and artistic director at the record company, Jacques Canetti, invited Brel to move to Paris.

Despite his family's objections and the added pressure of raising a second daughter, France, born on 12 July, Brel left Brussels for Paris in the fall of 1953.

In Paris, Brel worked hard to get his career off the ground.

In 1954, Brel competed in the music contest Grand Prix de la Chanson in Knokke-le-Zoute, finishing a disappointing 27th out of 28 participants.

In July 1954, Brel made his first appearance at the prestigious Olympia Theatre in Paris.

Later that summer, Brel embarked on his first French tour, appearing on the bill with French singers Dario Moreno, Philippe Clay, and Catherine Sauvage.

In February 1955, Brel met Georges Pasquier ( known as Jojo ) who would become the singer's closest friend, manager, and personal chauffeur.

In June, Brel toured France again with Canetti's show Les Filles de Papa, which included Françoise Dorin, Perrette Souplex, and Suzanne Gabriello.

In March 1956, Brel performed in North Africa, Amsterdam, Lausanne, and throughout Belgium.

In July, while visiting Grenoble, Brel met François Rauber, a classical pianist who would become his accompanist on future recordings.

In the United States of America, this lineage of democratic education reform was continued by Thomas Jefferson, who advocated ambitious reforms partly along Platonic lines for public schooling in Virginia.

Romantic artists such as Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix, and those from other movements such as the English Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood continued to regard history painting as the ideal for their most ambitious works.

In the Renaissance, the Italian humanists, who in many respects continued the grammatical and rhetorical traditions of the Middle Ages, rechristened the old Trivium with a new and more ambitious name: Studia humanitatis, and also increased its scope.

In the third Lubbers cabinet, the ambitious reform project was continued, with some adaptations and protests from the PvdA.

When Boulanger showed himself as an ambitious pretender, Clemenceau withdrew his support and became a vigorous opponent of the heterogeneous Boulangist movement, though the Radical press and a section of the party continued to patronize the general.

He continued his ambitious practical jokes during his time at Talk Radio.

Even now, none of his works can be said to be performed with any frequency, but few composers who have fallen into neglect after an early period of success have continued to produce so many ambitious works so long after any chance of performance would seem to have gone for good.

We see Pierre Rougon ( the legitimate son ) in his attempts to disinherit his Macquart half-siblings, his marriage to Felicité Puech, the voraciously ambitious daughter of a local merchant, and their continued failure to establish the fortune, fame and renown they seek, despite their greed and relatively comfortable lifestyles.

It was envisaged as a home for less mainstream and more ambitious programming, and while this tendency has continued to date, most special-interest programmes of a kind previously broadcast on BBC Two, for example the BBC Proms, now tend to appear on BBC Four instead.

His reputation as a mild-mannered stablishing influence with two very ambitious brothers continued though his life.

Fifth, the next-generation " Rampage " project was exceedingly ambitious and delayed repeatedly as the company continued to vacillate on its commitment to Rampage development versus short-term retail products, such as the Voodoo 3 and Napalm / VSA-100.

It was suppressed in 1749, but he immediately replaced it by Lettres sur quelques écrits de ce temps, which, with the exception of a short suspension in 1752, on account of an attack on the character of Voltaire, was continued till 1754, when it was succeeded by the more ambitious Année littéraire.

He continued the ambitious project of adorning Palenque with fine art and architecture begun by his father ; his most important addition to the city of Palenque was the Temple of the Cross which is the center piece of the Temple of the Cross Complex.

The close family relations and continued exchange between David and Uzun Hassan were betrayed to the Sultan by George Amiroutzes ( which involved an ambitious plan to send one of David's sons or Alexios to grow up at the court of Uzun Hassan in seeming opposition to Mehmed ), furnished an excuse to imprison David and his sons in March 1463.

The Adriaen ’ s Landing project, the most ambitious capital city development project in decades in the state, continued to progress during Rowland's time in office.

In the 21st century, the reputation of Valpolicella wines continued to expand on the world's wine market as ambitious winemakers began to invest more in advanced viticultural and winemaking techniques that produce higher quality wines.

As the school continued to grow, an ambitious project was undertaken to purchase the old Interstate Building, another turn-of-the-century loft building just around the corner, and connect it to Kendall with a striking three-story atrium.

His successors generally continued this process, and Christianity became the religion of any ambitious civil official.

Byron continued to write prose comedies with the ambitious semi-autobiographical Cyril's Success ( 1868 ), The Upper Crust ( starring Toole ), Uncle Dick's Darling ( 1870, starring Henry Irving ), An English Gentleman ( 1871, starring Edward Sothern ), Weak Woman ( 1875, starring Marion Terry ), and his greatest success, Our Boys ( 1875 – 79, Vaudeville Theatre ).

As Minister of Public Works in the 1931 – 1933 government of Manuel Azaña, he continued and expanded the policy of hydroelectric projects begun during the Primo de Rivera dictatorship, as well as the ambitious plan of infrastructural improvements in Madrid, such as the new Chamartín railway station and the tunnel under Madrid linking it to Atocha Station ; most of these works that would not be completed until after the 1936 – 1939 Spanish Civil War.

The political and military decline continued, while Macedonia was rising as a dangerous and ambitious neighbour.

Demy's subsequent films never quite captured audience and critical acclaim the way that " Les Parapluies " had, although he continued to make ambitious and original dramas and musicals.

He continued the same year, chosen as one of the core artists who worked on Songs in the Key of Life ; an ambitious concept album that took two years in the making.

Throughout what was later to transpire as his first period of chairmanship, Murray continued and extended the ambitious strategy he had inherited from David Holmes.