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Legend has it that she was born on the pavement of Rue de Belleville. Her father was Louis Alphonse Gassion a street performer. Her mother was Annetta Giovanna Maillard, she abandoned her at birth.
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He took her to his mother, who ran a brothel in Bernay, Normandy. There, prostitutes helped look after Piaf.
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From the age of three to seven, Piaf was allegedly blind as a result of keratitis.The prostitutes pooled money to accompany her on a pilgrimage. Piaf claimed this was the result of a miraculous healing.
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She joined her father in his street performances all over France
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A close friend. Together they toured the streets singing for earning money for themselves.
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She took a room and working with Mômone in Pigalle, Ménilmontant; and the Paris suburbs
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Piaf fell in love with him, and he moved with they
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Child's name Marcelle Dupont Gassion. Piaf found it difficult to care for she while living a life on the streets
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Her daughter died of meningitis at age two
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He was owner of the nightclub Le Gerny and he persuaded her to sing in here despite her extreme nervousness. He give her the nickname of "La Môme Piaf"
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Piaf was questioned and accused. To rehabilitate her image, she recruited Raymond Asso and he changed her stage name to "Édith Piaf"
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Piaf co-starred in Jean Cocteau's successful play
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One of her most popular songs, and this was voted a Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1998
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With this man she lived the greatest love story of her life. He dies on the flight from Paris to New York where he was traveling to meet her. Édith became addicted to morphine.
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Piaf was seriously injured in the crash along with Charles Aznavour, breaking her arm and two ribs, and thereafter had serious difficulties arising from morphine and alcohol addictions
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Her first husband and divorced him in 1957
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A Greek hairdresser-turned-singer and actor who was 20 years her junior.
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She died of liver cancer at age 47 at her villa in Plascassier on the French Riviera. It is said that Sarapo drove her body back to Paris secretly so that fans would think she had died in her hometown.
