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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.
- 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...
Combat’s Michel Perez, writing only days after her death, details the multiple Piafs that have existed: the realist, the romantic, the ‘less personal’ Piaf of her Compagnons phase, and the defiant Piaf of these last months.
Mar 3, 2013 · As 1950s commenced, Piaf’s personal life careened off track. In 1949, her lover Marcel Cerdan, world champion (French) middleweight boxer, was killed in a plane crash. Two years later, Piaf sustained serious injuries in an automobile accident, leading to morphine prescriptions and eventual addiction.
Dec 17, 2015 · Édith died of liver cancer at her villa in Provence in October 1963, aged 47. Her second husband, actor and singer Théo Sarapo, arranged for her body to be returned to Paris in secret to make it seem as if she had died in the city where she had spent almost all her life.
Dec 18, 2015 · Piaf died on October 10, 1963 in Plascassier, or according to her the death certificate, on October 11 in Paris. Her husband Théo Sarapo arranged that - a big star like her could only die...
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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.
