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Edith Piaf's Life Is Almost As Famous As Her Work. From Her Birth (which She Liked To Tell People Was In The Parisian Streets, Her Mother Shielded By Two Gendarmes) To Her Death (when Her Husband Allegedly Drove Her Corpse From The Cannes Hospital Where She Died To Her Flat, Lest Her Fans Think That She Had Abandoned Paris) Her Life Story Was A Rags-to-riches Tale Like No Other. A Street Singer Discovered By The Nightclub Owner Who Gave Her The Stage Name Piaf (sparrow), She Rose To Become A National Heroine. Friends With Charlie Chaplin, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Jean Cocteau, Maurice Chevalier And Marlene Dietrich, She Was Also At Various Times Chief Suspect For The Murder Of Her Mentor, An Alcoholic And A Drug Addict. But She Always Seemed To Embody, And Still Does, Something Of The Spirit Of Paris. Following Her Death In 1963, Forty Thousand People Descended On Pere Lachaise Cemetery For Her Funeral, And, Forty Years On, Millions Remain Fans Of Her Music.--book Jacket. Translated By Nina Rootes And Andrée Masoin De Virton. Translation Of: Au Bal De La Chance.

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Author

dith Piaf; Andree Masoin de Virton; Nina Rootes; Jean Cocteau

Publisher

Peter Owen ; Distributed in the USA by Dufour Editions

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780720612288

Category

music

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.49 / 5 (102 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13