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Mar 5, 2021 · 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 things in common.
- Edith Piaf’s mother was a café singer. Edith Giovanna Gassion, known later as Edith Piaf, came into the world on the streets of Paris on the cold night of December 19, 1915.
- Edith Piaf became blind at the age of three. Meningitis caused Edith Piaf to lose sight when she was just three years old, but she was able to restore it when she was four.
- She was raised by a brothel owner. Piaf’s mother left the family when she was only two years old, and her father was left to raise her on his own. Because of his work schedule, Piaf was often left in the care of her grandmother, Léontine Louise Descamps, who operated a brothel.
- Piaf joined her father as a street performer. Edith Piaf was born into a low-income family. But despite these humble beginnings, Piaf eventually became one of the most recognized singers in the history of French music.
Apr 5, 2013 · In 1935 Louis Leplee discovered Edith singing on the streets. Owning a popular night club on Champs Elysees, Louis convinced the young and very nervous young girl to perform. Due to her stage fright and diminutive stature, it was Louis who gave her the name, La Mome Piaf or Little Sparrow. During her time under Leplee’s guidance, Edith’s ...
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Jan 23, 2013 · The artist Jean Cocteau described her as an organism of "regal simplicity." When she performed, wrote Cocteau, Piaf had "the eyes of a blind person struck by a miracle, the eyes of a clairvoyant." Spiritually, Piaf developed into an esotericist; she was an official dues-paying Rosicrucian for many years until her death.
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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 ...
No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf, an engaging, comprehensive new biography by Carolyn Burke ’71GSAS, offers a vivid and revelatory account of the tragedienne’s turbulent life, depicting a fiercely determined, surprisingly reflective woman who strove ceaselessly, though not always successfully, to improve herself and transcend her troubled ...
Aug 8, 2016 · Born Edith Gassion in 1915 and discovered singing on the streets of Paris’s red light district in 1935, Piaf was a singer whose career had taken flight during the second world war.
