Ebook {Epub PDF} My Life by Édith Piaf

Edith Piaf is so full of love in her honesty about her wretched start in life, that after a few chapters I was ready to forgive anything. Drug addiction, alchoholism, squandering money, desperate liasons, you name it, and this was the '50's/5(11).  · The personal life of Piaf was characteristically dramatic. She was involved in three serious car crashes after , leading to morphine and alcohol www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 7 mins. Believing in her eternal quest for love, Piaf defends herself without apology. Translator Crosland, who wrote the first non-French biography of Piaf (Piaf, LJ 10/1/85), clarifies the text, fills in gaps, and tempers exaggerations in a series of end notes. This touching, romantic memoir is recommended for general audiences/5(10).

Early Life. Édith Piaf was born Édith Giovanna Gassion in Belleville, Paris, on Decem. Much of her past is shrouded in mystery and may have been embellished during her time as a. Edith Piaf - Mon Dieu (My God) (EDITH PIAF-Immortal "Little Sparrow" of France). Édith Piaf was born Édith Giovanna Gassion in Belleville, Paris, on Decem. Much of her past is shrouded in mystery and may have been embellished during her time as a celebrity. It is believed she was named after the World War I British nurse Edith Cavell, executed for helping Belgian soldiers escape from German captivity.

This song translates to “my lord” and it about a prostitute who falls in love with a lord even though she will never have him. The actual events that inspired the song were never shared by Piaf and remain largely a mystery. A lot of Piaf’s music is thought to have drawn inspiration from this tumultuous time of her life. Piaf’s songs and singing style seemed to reflect the tragedies of her own difficult life. Her mother, a café singer, abandoned her at birth, and she was taken in by her grandmother, who reared the girl in a brothel. Piaf reportedly became blind at age three as a complication of meningitis but recovered her sight four years later. A few years after that she joined her father, a circus acrobat, and accompanied him while he performed. Family. Despite numerous biographies, much of the truth of Piaf's life is unknown. She was born Édith Giovanna Gassion in Belleville, www.doorway.ru has it that she was born on the pavement of Rue de Belleville 72, but her birth certificate says that she was born on 19 December at the Hôpital Tenon, a hospital located in the 20th arrondissement.