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Jun 28, 2021 · In 1949, Piaf was back in New York, and Cerdan was scheduled for a fight with Jake LaMotta. Cerdan planned on traveling by boat, but Piaf insisted he come by plane so they could spend more time together. Cerdan's plane crashed into the Azores; there were no survivors. Piaf was heartbroken.
- She Had Another Story
- She Shared Her Name with A Tragic Hero
- She Was Abandoned
- Like Father, Like Daughter
- She Lived with Prostitutes
- She Couldn’T Say “No”
- She Went Blind
- She Experienced A Miracle
- She Took to The Street
- She Met A Long-Lost Relative
From the very beginning, Edith Piaf knew how to make a dramatic entrance. Although her birth certificate said she was born at the Hospital Tenon in Paris, she had a different story to tell. On December 19, 1915, Edith claimed that her mother—Annetta Maillard—never made it to the hospital. With a no-show ambulance, Maillard delivered her on the fron...
Piaf’s parents named her with courage in mind. Her name—Edith—comes from a British WWI nurse named Edith Cavell who risked her life for the sake of French troopers. After rescuing them from the Germans, Cavell faced a death sentence. They executed her only two months before Piaf’s birth. While both women led wildly different lives, they had many th...
Some say there’s no love as unconditional as a mother’s love for her child. That is, unless your mother is Edith Piaf’s. Sadly, Piaf’s mother wanted nothing to do with her and abandoned her at birth. For some of her childhood, she lived with her maternal grandmother, but in the end, she belonged to her father. And with WWI raging on, he had a diffi...
Piaf’s father—Louis Alphonse Gassion—was an acrobat with a theatrical past. He was a street performer hailing from Normandy, and as time would tell, these dramatic affinities one day blossomed in his own daughter. But in 1916, he had WWI to consider, and when he enlisted, he had no choice but to leave Piaf in the care of his mother—a woman with qui...
In Bernay, Normandy, Piaf’s grandmother welcomed the girl into her scandalous life. She ran a bordello—or what some called “a house of ill repute.” When Piaf's father went off to fight, he left his baby girl there. Some say it takes a village to raise a child, but it only took a house full of her grandmother’s “employees” to raise Edith. These resi...
With her turbulent romantic history, it’s no wonder Edith Piaf insists that her life growing up in the bordello influenced her weakness for men. For one, the importance of consent was woefully skewed for Piaf. She once reminisced, saying, “I thought when a boy called a girl, the girl would never refuse.” But as a child, Piaf’s physical illnesses fu...
During a chapter of her childhood, Edith Piaf couldn’t see at all. She suffered from keratitis—an inflammatory condition that affects the cornea of the eye. Her blindness woke pity in the hearts of her grandmother and the other girls. Together, they decided to pool money in an effort to find a cure for Piaf’s unfortunate condition. But sadly, the m...
The proposed cure for young Piaf’s blindness was…unconventional, to say the least. The money for Piaf’s eyes went toward a very special pilgrimage—a spiritual journey in the name of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux. When Piaf’s eyesight saw considerable improvement, everyone around her believed that this healing was a downright miracle. With her sight grat...
At the age of 14, Edith Piaf was ready to start making some money. After returning from battle, her father went back to his acrobatic profession. Finally old enough to earn her keep, Piaf and her father began trudging the streets together, setting up shop on corners and performing for the everyday masses. Her songbird voice rang true through the ci...
Only a year into performing, Piaf met a very important person—her sister. Or to be more accurate, her half-sister, Simone “Momone” Berteaut. So little is known about Momone that some say that there’s a possibility that she wasn’t Piaf’s sister at all. Either way, they became soul sisters in the end. Momone joined Piaf on the street, and together, t...
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Mar 11, 2024 · Edith Piaf (1915–1963), the world class chanteuse from France, struggled most of her life with Rheumatoid Arthritis pains. She was born Edith Giovanna Gassion, later nicknamed La Môme Piaf (“the little sparrow”, in English). Her life was a struggle with parental abandonment, early child passing, and congenital diseases she dealt with her ...
Jan 26, 2016 · Edith Piaf died on 10 October, aged just 48. December 2015 marked the centenary of Piaf’s birth, not her premature passing, but because the exact date of that birth was lost to the Paris streets ...
Aug 20, 2023 · There is strong evidence that rheumatoid arthritis is tripped off by an infection, but so far doctors have not found a specific germ that causes this disease. Liver cancer: Liver cancer is often caused by hepatitis C, a sexually-transmitted infection. Edith Piaf December 19, 1915 to October 10, 1963
Jul 1, 2014 · World-famous French singer Edith Piaf lived with chronic pain due in part to her crippling rheumatoid arthritis. Without many treatment options at the time, Piaf was prescribed and became addicted to painkillers. She also continued to self-medicate with alcohol. The toxic combination took a toll on her health and she died of liver failure in 1963.
Feb 22, 1981 · The Association des Amis d'Edith Piaf claims 6,000 members throughout the world, most of them under 40. When she was born in 1915, two neighborhood policemen delivered her at 72 Rue de Belleville ...
