François Ovide (born in

Rouen Rouen (, ; or ) is a city on the River Seine in northern France. It is the prefecture of the Regions of France, region of Normandy (administrative region), Normandy and the Departments of France, department of Seine-Maritime. Formerly one of ...

, October 1952; died in Rouen, 29 May 2002) was a French

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ist, best known for his longstanding collaborations with Albert Marcoeur and with

John Greaves John Greaves (1602 – 8 October 1652) was an English mathematician, astronomer and antiquarian. Educated at Balliol College, Oxford, he was elected a Fellow of Merton College in 1624. He studied Persian and Arabic, acquired a number of old boo ...

. Ovide grew up around Rouen. His first two band projects in the 1970s were rock band So & Co and Plat du Jour. In 1976, he started working with Marcoeur. He went on to join

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for the band's last year of existence and then started doing session work. He also joined folk-rock band Gwendal in 1981. In 1984, he joined Greaves' backing band, working alongside

Mireille Bauer Mireille Bauer (born 24 August 1951, Barr, Alsace, northeastern France) is a French percussionist and former member of Gong. Through her then boyfriend Pierre Moerlen, she first worked with Gong in a session capacity on '' Angel's Egg'' and ''You' ...

(previously of

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). They later married and had two children. Ovide went on to play on Greaves' albums ''La Petite Bouteille de Linge'' (1991), ''Songs'' and ''The Caretaker''. He also played on

Pip Pyle Phillip "Pip" Pyle (4 April 1950 – 28 August 2006) was an English-born drummer from Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, who later resided in France. He is best known for his work in the progressive rock Canterbury scene bands Gong, Hatfield an ...

's 1998 ''7 Year Itch''. In the mid-1980s, he also recorded a solo album with Bauer, Pierre Vermeire,

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and others, but the project was never released. Other session work was with

Renaud Renaud Pierre Manuel Séchan (), known as Renaud (), born 11 May 1952, is a French singer, songwriter and actor. His characteristically 'broken' voice makes for a very distinctive vocal style. Several of his songs are popular classics in F ...

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and

Maxime Le Forestier Maxime Le Forestier (; born 10 February 1949 as Bruno Le Forestier) is a French singer-songwriter. Life and career Bruno Le Forestier was born on 10 February 1949 in Paris to father Robert Le Forestier and mother Genevieve (née Lili 1917–2010 ...

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