The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Michel Jean Legrand is a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist. His father Raymond Legrand was a conductor and composer renowned... for hits such as Irma la douce and his mother, Marcelle Der Mikaëlian , who married Legrand Senior in 1929, was descended from the Armenian bourgeoisie. Legrand is a prolific composer, having written over 200 film and television scores in addition to many memorable songs. He is best known for his often haunting film music and scores, such as The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Thomas Crown Affair featuring the song "The Windmills of Your Mind" for which he won his first Academy Award. Legrand has composed more than two hundred film and television scores and several musicals and has made well over a hundred albums. He has won three Oscars and five Grammys and has been nominated for an Emmy. He was twenty-two when his first album, I Love Paris, became one of the best-selling instrumental albums ever released.
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Cherbourg-Octeville is a city and commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. Originally just Cherbourg, it was formed when the city absorbed Octeville on 28 February 2000, and was officially renamed Cherbourg-Octeville. Cherbourg holds an arsenal of the French Navy.... Cherbourg-Octeville is situated at the north of the Cotentin Peninsula. It is in the Manche département in the Basse-Normandie région. At the time of the 1999 census the city of Cherbourg had an area of 6.91 km² , while the city of Octeville had an area of 7.35 km² . The amalgamated city today has an area of 14.26 km² . The combined population of Cherbourg and Octeville at the 1999 census was 42,318 inhabitants. The population of Cherbourg metropolitan area at the 1999 census was 117,855 inhabitants. The city is now the second largest in the Basse-Normandie region , surpassing Alençon, which had been second before the amalgamation.
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