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Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

*PREVIEW* Charles Aznavour, French Resistance Hero

Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

Lions Led By Donkeys

Comedy

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0

I figured because of who I am, I have a tendency to talk about quite possibly the most evil

0:07.0

French Armenian to ever exist, that being my own grandfather.

0:10.2

Oh, right.

0:11.2

Yes.

0:12.2

So instead, we're going to talk about, inarguably, one of the greatest French Armenians

0:20.6

to ever exist. We're talking about Charles

0:22.9

Osnfor. Hell yeah. An icon of Armenia, but never a citizen. An icon of France, who's buried near

0:31.1

Napoleon Bonaparte, famed singer, crooner, actor, a man that is best described to, well, Americans, as the French Frank Sinatra,

0:40.5

and most importantly, has a Gundam character named after him.

0:44.3

He does?

0:45.3

Shara Asnable, yeah, which is like a direct name.

0:49.7

And because he truly is Armenian, he was best friends with virtually every major corrupt French politician of recent memory.

0:58.9

But we'll get to that final part.

1:00.3

He's a man that's so famous.

1:02.8

Talking about his career is almost pointless.

1:05.9

He wrote over a thousand songs.

1:08.9

He toured until the day he died pretty much. Like he, when he died,

1:13.5

he was taking a break from touring to recover. So going into the depths of his career is kind of

1:20.0

pointless. Instead, I figured we should talk about the time that Charles Osnivore and his family

1:26.4

fought the Nazis as members of the French resistance during World War II.

1:31.1

Hell yeah, why not?

1:32.0

You know, if you got a life and career, like, I call him Charles, which the French name Charles.

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