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Édith Giovanna Gassion (19 December 1915 – 10 October 1963), known as Édith Piaf (French pronunciation: [edit pjaf]), was a French entertainer best known for performing songs in the cabaret and modern chanson genres. She is widely regarded as France's greatest popular singer and one of the most celebrated performers of the 20th century.
- Early Years of Poor Health and Injury
- Addiction Leading to Illness
- Her Death
Like so many children raised on the street, she was an ill child. Her mother abandoned her at birth, her father was an acrobatic street performer. When her father enlisted in the Army during World War I, she went to live with her father's mother, the madam of a brothel. She suffered from an eye disease that causes blindness from age 3 until age 7. ...
Piaf quite rapidly developed an addiction to morphine, an addiction which would torment her for the rest of her life. She struggled with alcohol dependency and friends report that she experimented with other drugs. Sometime during the 1950s, she began to develop rheumatoid arthritis and was reportedly in constant pain which only deepened her depend...
Later that year, Piaf went with her husband, Theo Sarapo, to recuperate at her villa on the French Riviera. However, her condition rapidly deteriorated. She died on October 10 or October 11. The date is unclear because her husband and nurse either drove or hired an ambulance to bring Piaf's body back to Paris in the dark of night, and they announce...
Edith Piaf died at seven o’clock in the morning in Paris, and a few hours later on that same recent Friday her friend Jean Cocteau, in his nearby country house at Milly-la-Forêt, suffered a...
Apr 2, 2014 · With an array of health hardships over the years, Édith Piaf died from liver failure at her French Riviera villa on October 10, 1963. (Other potential causes of death have been suggested as...
Jun 28, 2021 · After her death one of her closest friends, Jean Cocteau, a world famous French writer, said, "Edith Piaf burned herself up in the flames of her glory. I never knew anyone who was less protective of her spirit. She didn't dole it out, she gave everything away." Cocteau died the day after Piaf. Within 48 hours, France lost two of its greatest ...
Oct 6, 2024 · Edith Piaf (born December 19, 1915, Paris, France—died October 10, 1963, Plascassier, near Grasse [see Researcher’s Note]) was a French singer and actress whose interpretation of the chanson, or French ballad, made her internationally famous.
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Oct 10, 2013 · She was only 47 when she died in her villa on the French Riviera and her body was immediately taken to Paris. Thousands lined the streets to watch her funeral procession to the Père Lachaise cemetery, where more than 40,000 saw her interred.
