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'''Pierre Louki''' ({{Nee|Varenne}}, 1920-2006) was a French actor and singer/songwriter.

Pierre Varenne was born 25 July 1920, in Yonne,<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=2006-12-26 |title=Pierre Louki |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2006/12/26/pierre-louki_849492_3382.html |access-date=2025-11-02 |work=Le Monde |language=fr}}</ref> the son of Georges Varenne, a teacher killed in Auschwitz concentration camp.{{Cn|date=November 2025}}

Varenne learnt the theatre in Auxerre,{{Cn|date=November 2025}} before going to Paris in the early 1950s, where he met Roger Blin and Jean-Louis Barrault. He subsequently played in Blin's production of ''Waiting for Godot''. He also began song-writing at this time.<ref name=":0" />

Among the interpreters of Louki's more than 200 chansons (besides himself) were Jean Ferrat, Catherine Sauvage, Marcel Amont, Juliette Gréco, Cora Vaucaire, Isabelle Aubret, Annie Cordy,<ref name=":0" /> Francesca Solleville, Les Frères Jacques, Philippe Clay, Colette Renard, and Georges Brassens. He toured with the latter and wrote a book of recollections entitled ''Avec Brassens'' (éditions Christian Pirot, 1999, {{ISBN|2-86808-129-0}}).{{Cn|date=November 2025}}

He received the Académie Charles Cros prize (1972), and SACEM André-Didier Mauprey prize (1999). Pierre Louki also appeared as stage author and actor and broadcast on France-Culture, while on television he took part in programmes of Jean-Christophe Averty.{{Cn|date=November 2025}}

He wrote several books for children and his memoirs are ''Quelques confidences'' (éditions Christian Pirot, septembre 2006).{{Cn|date=November 2025}}

Louki died 21 December 2006.<ref name=":0" />

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