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Jun 7, 2018 · French cabaret artist Edith Piaf is best known for her ballads about life, love, and sorrow. 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.
- Megan Romer
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.
Oct 6, 2024 · 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 complications of meningitis but recovered her sight four years later.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Apr 2, 2014 · Having a life beset by addictions and related health issues, Piaf died in France in 1963 at the age of 47. She continues to be revered as a national treasure. Early Life. Édith Piaf was born...
Dec 17, 2015 · Piaf had led such a wild life that the Archbishop of Paris refused to allow a Mass to be said at her funeral. She was buried at Père Lachaise cemetery following a procession watched by tens of thousands of mourners.
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.
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Jan 26, 2016 · Edith Piaf died on 10 October, aged just 48. December 2015 marked the centenary of Piaf’s birth, not her premature passing, but because the exact date of that birth was lost to the Paris...
