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‪This article begins by presenting a major figure in French and international music-hall: Jacques-Charles (1882-1971), director and producer of large-scale shows, hit songwriter, producer of several radio and television programmes, and director of the Olympia concert hall in Paris from 1911 to 1914. This is followed by a study of his various publications on the subject, published between 1925 and 1966, inviting further research into this rich corpus. Despite their thematic, formal and generic diversity, the article claims that it is possible to read and analyse them all together as a vast memorial project. Finally, it brings to light a new insight into the music-hall genre, as it appears in the writings of Jacques-Charles, and its evolution during the 1960s. It sheds a singular light on this paradoxical period that saw both the disappearance and metamorphosis of music-hall in France.‪