Later she lived for a while with her alcoholic father, whom she left by age 15 to become a street singer in Paris. Once in possession of their celebrity photos, prisoners were able to cut out their own images and use them in forged papers as part of escape plans.
She was buried in the P�re Lachaise Cemetery, Paris.
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Piaf died of cancer in Cannes on October 11, 1963, the same day as her friend Jean Cocteau. The most famous songs performed by Piaf were La Vie en Rose (1946), Milord (1959), and Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien (1960). As child at her grandmother's in Normandy , she suffered from keratitis, but 1925 - 10 A pilgrimage to Lisieux in the Normandy honoring Saint Thérèse of Lisieux / (Sainte Thérèse de l'Enfant-Jésus), and the intense devoutness of the family resulted in a miraculous healing, Édith … Today, �dith Piaf's association with the French Resistance is well known and many owe their lives to her. She had a love affair of two years with Marcel Cerdan until his death in a plane crash 10/27/1949. Shortly thereafter, Lepl�e was murdered and Piaf was accused of being an accessory; she was acquitted. In 1935, �dith was discovered by the nightclub owner Louis Lepl�e whose club was frequented by the upper and lower classes alike.
Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox.Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. This article was most recently revised and updated by In 1935 she was discovered by Louis Leplée, a cabaret owner, who gave her her first nightclub job. By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica.Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. After years of being never far from the streets, Piaf suddenly shot to She was born �dith Giovanna Gassion in Paris, France; her mother worked as a cafe singer and her father was a well-known travelling acrobat.
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In early 1963, �dith recorded her last song, L'homme de Berlin. Charles Aznavour recalled that Piaf's funeral procession was the only time, since the end of World War II, that Parisian traffic came to a complete stop. The Paris Olympia is the place where �dith Piaf achieved fame and where, just a few months before her death, she gave one of her most memorable concerts while barely able to stand.
From age 3 to 7, she was blind. She wrote her signature song, La Vie en Rose, in the middle of the German occupation in World War II.
Edith Piaf had an affair with former middleweight world champion, Marcel Cerdan, who was already married. She began to make friends with famous people, such as the actor Maurice Chevalier and the poet Jacques Borgeat.
Piaf was married twice. In 1940, Jean Cocteau wrote the successful play Le Bel Indifferent for her to star in. young Edith Piaf (real name Edith Gassion) here as a child c. 1918 UNSPECIFIED - OCTOBER 13: young Edith Piaf (real name Edith Gassion) here as a child c. 1918 (Photo by Apic/Getty Images) Embed
From this she took her stage name.
After the war, �dith toured Europe, the United States, and South America, becoming an internationally known figure. Her second husband, Theophanis Lamboukas (a.k.a. The great love of Piaf's life, the boxer Marcel Cerdan, died in 1949. Her first record was produced in the same year.