Paul Mauriat (1925 – 2006) was a French orchestra leader, specializing in light music. He is best known in the United States for his hit (#1 for 5 weeks in 1968) recording of André Popp's "L'Amour est bleu" ("Love is Blue"). He is one of the artist with the largest recording catalogs featuring more than 1000 titles just from his Polygram era (1965-1993) almost all of them are available on CD, mostly in Japan.