1960. In September 1965, Gréco attempted suicide by an overdose of sleeping pills. She was found unconscious in her bathroom and taken to the hospital by Françoise Sagan. Gréco lived between Paris and Saint-Tropez. A leftist, she supported François Mitterrand in the 1974 presidential election, and was an initial investor in Minute, when it was mainly non-political and focused on the entertainment world. Gréco died on 23 September 2020 at the age of 93. Legacy Gréco was portrayed by actress Anna Mouglalis in the film Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2010). Jean-Paul Sartre based the singer in his trilogy The Roads to Freedom (Les chemins de la liberté) on Gréco. An allusion to Gréco is made by English singer Ray Davies in the song "Art School Babe" from his album Storyteller. "Michelle" by the Beatles was inspired by Gréco and the Parisian Left Bank culture. Paul McCartney said of the song: "We'd tag along to these parties, and it was at the time of people like Juliette Greco, the French bohemian thing. They'd all wear black turtleneck sweaters, it's kind of where we got all that from, and we fancied Juliette like mad. Have you ever seen her? Dark hair, real chanteuse, really happening. So I used to pretend to be French, and I had this song that turned out later to be 'Michelle'." John Lennon wrote in Skywriting by Word of Mouth: "I'd always had a fantasy about a woman who would be a beautiful, intelligent, dark-haired, high-cheek-boned, free-spirited artist à la Juliette Gréco." Marianne Faithfull said of Gréco: "When I was a young girl, Juliette Gréco was my absolute idol...She’s my role model for life. If I want to be anybody, I want to be Juliette Gréco." In 1999, a rose was named after her by Georges Delbard under the name of "Juliette Gréco". On 23 September 2021, "Place Juliette Gréco" was inaugurated in Paris. It can be found beside the Church of Saint-Germain-des-Pres, in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. Decorations Commander of the Legion of Honour (2012): Officer (2002); Knight (1984) National Order of Merit (2015): Commander (2006); Officer (1999) Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters (2016) Autobiographies 1982: Jujube (published in French), Stock 2012: Je suis faite comme ça, Flammarion Notable songs 1950: Si tu t'imagines: written by Raymond Queneau and composed by Joseph Kosma. 1950: La Fourmi : written by Robert Desnos and composed