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Jun 7, 2018 · Sadly, her life story was full of illness, injury, addiction, and these factors took its toll on her body. She died at the age of 47 in Cannes, France. The case of death was likely liver cancer although some reports say it was cirrhosis others say it was a cerebral hemorrhage.
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After Piaf's relationship with Dupont ended, Marcelle, who had been living with her father, contracted meningitis and died in July 1935, aged two. [ 2 ] In 1935, Piaf was discovered by nightclub owner Louis Leplée .
Oct 6, 2024 · She died at the age of 47, reportedly from liver cancer. Her death was mourned across France, and thousands lined the route of her funeral procession.
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- Edith Piaf, abandoned at birth by her café-singer mother, was taken in by her grandmother and reared in a brothel. Piaf was blinded by complication...
- In 1935 Edith Piaf was discovered by a cabaret owner who gave her her first nightclub job. He began calling her “la môme piaf,” Parisian slang for...
- Edith Piaf was a French singer whose expressive interpretations of the chanson, or French ballad, made her internationally famous. Among her tradem...
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.
Jun 28, 2021 · Edith Piaf was plagued with arthritis, which began around the time of Marcel Cerdan's death. So by 1951, when she was in a car accident, she was already on a lot of prescription medication. She was driving with her new boyfriend, Andre Pousse, when he missed a turn, and they crashed with her breaking an arm and two ribs.
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...
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.
