Charles Lemaître, who was born in 1854 in Saint-Georges-d'Aunay and 1928 in Caen, was a poet who wrote in Norman French, and nicknamed 'Le Chansonnier du Bocage'. The original bust of 1932 in the jardin des plantes was melted by the Germans in the war, but this second one was erected in 1981. His works: Eiou qu'y va lé trachi, Contes drolatiques en patois bas-normand, (1912); Les Joyeux Bocains (1917); Hélas qu'c'est drôle (1924); and Bonnes gens de Normandie (1941).
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