Editing Charles Aznavour (section)

==Early life and family==
Aznavour was born on 22 May 1924<ref name="armenian.ch">{{cite web|title=Portrait de S.E. Charles Aznavour|url=http://www.armenian.ch/index.php?id=ambassador|publisher=Embassy of Armenia in Switzerland|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140630015859/http://www.armenian.ch/index.php?id=ambassador|archive-date=30 June 2014|language=fr}}</ref> at the clinic Tarnier at 89, [[rue d'Assas]] in [[Saint-Germain-des-Prés]], [[6th arrondissement of Paris]], into a family of artists living on [[rue Monsieur-le-Prince]].<ref name="Bellaïche_11">{{cite book|author=Raoul Bellaïche|title=Aznavour "Non je n'ai rien oublié"|trans-title=Aznavour "No, I have not forgotten anything"|publisher=Éditions de l'Archipel|date=24 August 2014|isbn=9782809807646|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=678ghCLrSYoC|access-date=13 August 2018|page=11|language=fr}}</ref> He was named Shahnour (or Chahnour)<ref name="Hovannisian">{{cite book|last=Hovannisian|first=Richard G.|author-link=Richard Hovannisian|title=Cultural and Ethical Legacies|year=2007|publisher=Transaction Publishers|location=New Brunswick, N.J.|isbn=9781412835923|page=215}}</ref> Vaghinag (Vaghenagh)<ref name="Katz"/> Aznavourian<ref name="armenian.ch"/> ({{langx|hy|Շահնուր Վաղինակ Ազնաւուրեան}}), by his parents, [[Armenians|Armenian]] immigrants Michael (Misha) Aznavourian (from present-day [[Akhaltsikhe]], Georgia)<ref name="armenian.ch"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musicme.com/Charles-Aznavour/biographie/|title=Biographie Charles Aznavour|publisher=Musicme.com|access-date=18 August 2015}}</ref> and Knar Baghdasarian, from Adapazarı (in present-day [[Sakarya, Turkey]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.billetnet.fr/en/wiki/Charles_Aznavour|title=Biodata|publisher=Billetnet.fr|access-date=1 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720205407/http://www.billetnet.fr/en/wiki/Charles_Aznavour|archive-date=20 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/charles-aznavour/|title=Charles Aznavour – Encyclopædia Universalis|date=10 September 2008 |publisher=Universalis.fr|access-date=18 August 2015}}</ref>{{sfn|Dicale|2017|p=713}} He had one older sister, Aïda, born in January 1923 in [[Thessaloniki]], [[Greece]] before their family moved to France.{{sfn|Belleret|2018|p=18}} The Aznavourians ran a small Armenian restaurant in the [[rue de la Huchette]], a hangout for actors and musicians until the Depression. One biography says that Misha’s father — Charles’s grandfather — “had been a chef to [[Nicholas II of Russia|Czar Nicholas II]].” But Aznavour himself gave a laugh about it: “My grandfather,” he said, “was a chef for the governor of [[Tiflis]], in Georgia. The czar used to eat there every 150 years.”<ref>[http://www.thevillager.com/villager_176/aurevoirfrom.html] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130522213752/http://www.thevillager.com/villager_176/aurevoirfrom.html}} The Villager</ref>
Charles's parents introduced him to performing at an early age, and he dropped out of school at age nine, and took the stage name "Aznavour".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.rfimusique.com/siteEN/biographie/biographie_6059.asp|date=December 2008|title=Charles Aznavour|newspaper=RFI Musique|access-date=10 February 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110210004828/http://www.rfimusique.com/siteEN/biographie/biographie_6059.asp|archive-date=10 February 2011  }}</ref>

=== World War II ===
During the [[German military administration in occupied France during World War II|German occupation of France]] during [[World War II]], Aznavour and his family hid "a number of people who were persecuted by the Nazis, while Charles and his sister Aida were involved in rescue activities." Their work was recognized in a statement issued in 2017 by [[Reuven Rivlin]], President of Israel. That year, Aznavour and Aida received the [[Raoul Wallenberg Award]] for their wartime activities. "The Aznavours were closely linked to the [[Missak Manouchian]] [[French Resistance|Resistance Group]] and in this context they offered shelter to Armenians, [[The Holocaust in France|Jews]] and others at their own Paris flat, risking their own lives."<ref name="Wallenberg Medal">{{cite web|title=Charles Aznavour and his sister Aida received the Raoul Wallenberg Medal|url=http://www.raoulwallenberg.net/news/charles-aznavour-and-his-sister-aida-received-the-raoul-wallenberg-medal|website=The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation|access-date=1 October 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Legendary singer Aznavour given award for family efforts to save Jews in WWII|url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/legendary-singer-aznavour-given-award-for-family-efforts-to-save-jews-in-wwii/|access-date=1 October 2018|work=[[The Times of Israel]]|agency=AFP|date=28 October 2017}}</ref>