Edith Piaf

Edith Piaf (Edith Giovanna Gassion, 1915-1963) was not just a pop singer. Nicknamed "Little Piaf" in her youth, she became the embodiment of French song. "La Vie en rose", "Hymne à l'amour", "Milord" - these songs are still performed all over the world today. Not limited to legends (a poor childhood in Belleville, a pilgrimage to Saint Thérèse, who restored the girl's lost sight, an addiction to morphine, numerous love affairs - with Marcel Cerdan, Yves Montand, Georges Moustaki, and others), the author shows us a woman who became a part of her era, brave and tender, taking risks and overcoming pain, about which Jean Cocteau said he had never met a person "less stingy with her soul, who did not spend it, but squandered it, throwing this gold to the wind".