30. The Great Edith Piaf is not having, in fact, no education and do not own a music letter, Piaf sang and other people's songs, and composed herself. One of the poets she loved immediately and unconditionally, Rammon Asso became. His verses have fallen perfectly on the music that he loved so

32. Wealthy Edith Piaf during that concert on the big boulevards of Edith sang songs, who specifically wrote Raymont Asso - "She lived on Pigal Street," My Legionnaire, "Vimpel for Legion." And the next day in France flashed: "Yesterday, on the stage" ABC "

Jean-Dominic Bryyar Edith Piaf. Without love, we are not a special thanks to the literary agent Anastasia Leicester for the help of the acquisition of rights to publish this book, it was published in French by the Publishing House "HORS COLLECTION", the PLACE division

In December 2015, it turned 100 years from the date of the appearance of the French star named Edith Piaf. But it seems how many centuries would not have passed, the name of this brilliant singer will also be known, and its creativity is also readable as today. Life Edith Piaf is a series of takeoffs and deepest falls. Perhaps the tests measured on the life of this tiny woman with an increase in one and a half meters, the heavens died as much as they would have enough for ten people.

The death of a single child, two (for other information four) car accidents, seven heavy operations, dependence on drugs and alcohol, attacks of madness and white hot, attempted suicide, three comes because of hepatitis, two world wars and loss of a loved one - this is only Top Iceberg. Edith Piaf Biography is a string of tragedies that allow you to call this woman with a martyr and a sinner equally.

Childhood and youth

Piaf was born in December 1915. Her parents - a failed actress Anita Mayar and Acrobat Louis Gassjon - earned a living as they could. The girl was born in the midst of the First World War. Father went to the front, and Mom sent a little to the grandmother. The woman abused alcohol and granddaughter became a real burnt for her. Therefore, the wine was mixed into a bottle with milk so that she constantly slept.

Gassjon, who returned from the front, found a daughter in a terrible state. Exhausted, it seems, never was washing, the girl melted the heart of the soldier with his eyes. Louis dismay the baby in Normandy to his elderly mother. Here 3-year-old Edith Giovanna Gasson, so the real name of Piaf sounds, finally learned what care and attention is. Grandma with horror noticed that granddaughter blind. As it turned out, the developing keratitis former ever-dried "nannik" simply did not see.

There is a legend that Holy Teresa managed to heal the blind Edith Giovanna, to which thousands of pilgrims from all over the country came to Lizier every year. According to other information, the baby cured in the hospital, but at the same time the grandmother prayed tirelessly about her insight of Saint Teresa. Whatever it was, but vision returned to Edith. Since then, the saint portrait was constantly with her until the end of life.

And nothing, if it were not for the place where I had to live a little Edith Piaf, along with a good old woman. It was a public house. According to one information, the woman here worked for a servant. Otherwise - contained a house. In school over a little girl, they mocked so that she had to leave learning. Grandma sent 9-year granddaughter to his father to Paris.

Louis Gassjon himself almost survived. On its content there were 8 children, the only siblings and sisters Edith. Everything could help the eldest daughter dad, it is to take a child with him to work. He performed with acrobatic numbers on the streets and squares.

It was found that the daughter knows how to sing. When a man performed, a tiny girl performed some simple song. Penhable passersby, looking at the singing child in the bench rags, donated more money.

So, on the street, and the creative biography of Edith Piaf began. When the girl turned 14, she began to live an independent life, earning themselves on a singing room in various gold places. Skinny, ugly, with vulgarly tinted lips and eyes, in bright, not visiting rags, she looked terribly. But the voice - the voice was great.

Music

Street singer noticed the host cabaret "Juan-les-Pen". When this awkward girl came out to sing on stage, everyone fell. Surprisingly, but at these moments it seemed unusually beautiful. The owner of the store Louis Dupont fell in the singer from the cabaret. They began to live together. In 17 Piaf became a mother. But she could not nurse the babe of Marseille. The scene has long become for Edith a place, beside which she did not imagine life.

To make a "negligent mother" sit at home, Dupon translated the baby to his home. He expected that so the spouse would return to him. But Marseille got sick with meningitis in Paris, who did not know how to verch the doctors at that time. Edith Piaf came to the girl to the hospital and also infected. She managed to recover, but Marseille did not. Most of the singer never had children. From Louis she was still gone.

In 1935, the 20-year-old singer fell into the field of view of the owner of the Cabaret "Gernis", which was located on the Champs Elysées. Louis Lepal compared this priceless find with an untreated diamond. It was he who came up with her stage name Piaf (sparrows). The "cut" turned out to be tough. The future star was taught everything: to work with the accompaniment, tastefully dress, correctly behave on the stage, follow the failing, gesticulate.

Some biographers write that Lepale did not particularly ceremony with the "acquisition". He could easily give an artist with a podbitant. But he achieved the desired result. Soon the new star climbed on the Zherenis layout. At the first posters, her name sounded like "Baby Piaf". Success followed unexpectedly loud.

A debut performance on the radio allowed her to glorify the whole country. Radi-listeners were filled with letters, demanding "baby piaff". Behind the rapid takeoff followed the fall. The lepale was shot shown. Piaff also got into the circle of suspects, because it was also mentioned in her will of Louis. Began injury in newspapers. The public arranged robes during the singer's speeches.

The new takeoff happened after meeting with the famous poet Rayman Asso. He taught the ascending star to everything that he did not have time. Asso attributes the creation of "Piaf style". The poet songwriter wrote a specially "under her" the compositions "Paris - Mediterranean", "she lived on Pigal Street," Vympel for Legion and My Legionnaire.

Soon the composer Margeryit Montno joined this tandem, from cooperation with which the songs "Little Marie", "The Devil next to me" and "Hymn of Love".

ASSO achieved the speech by Edith Piaf on the stage of the most popular Music Hall in Paris. The performance on these samples was equated to the descent of the ship to the larger water. After the first speech, all Paris newspapers wrote about the birth of the Great French singer Edith Piaf.

During World War II, the star left the Asso and began working with the famous French director. He took off the singer in his film "An indifferent handsome man. A year later, in 1941, the artist again appeared on the screen in George Lakuba "Montmartre on Seine".

It is known that the French legend made his contribution to the approach of victory. She performed in front of French prisoners of war and photographed with them after the concert. From these pictures, then a photo was made for the documents with which the prisoners could escape from the camp.

The popularity of the singer in the post-war time was ambitious. In 1955, Piaf acted in Olympia, the legendary concert hall. After the speech immediately went to a multi-month tour of the tour across America.

Already then the star was very painful. Her health, undermined by severe ailments, alcohol and drugs, which she joined pain from the aggravated arthritis, this trip broke out finally. The singer spent several months in the hospital.

In 1961, she had a liver cancer. And in September 1962, the French "Varobushka" heard the entire Paris. Edith Piaf from the height of the Eiffel Tower sang with compatriots their best songs "No, I don't regret anything", "Milord" and "right to love." The last time she went to fans on March 31, 1963. It was the scene of the Opera House in Lille.

Personal life

Legends told her novels. Surprisingly, this is small, by and large, ugly and even in some extent, a caricature woman had an incredible power over men. At the same time, his lovers always threw the first, barely had an understanding that feelings were cooled.

So, for example, after 2 years of living together, she came with a 23-year-old, who struck the road to the stage and taught everything. Rumor her novel with a Hollywood star. Allegedly, these two legendary women associated not only friendly feelings.

During the tour in America, the star met the famous compatriot - Boxer Marseil Cordan. He became the main man in the life of Edith Piaf. At the time of dating, Hordan had a wife and three sons. But he was unable to resist this little great woman, breaking away between his family and Piaf until the end of his life. Wherever he was, but rushed from all his feet if he called Edith.

It happened to that terrible October Day of 1949. She called Marseille to New York, where then toured. Surdan threw everything and flew out. His plane crashed near the Azores. The remains of Marseille were identified by the clock donated to him Piaf. From the deepest depression, the star was saved by morphine, alcohol and work.

Personal life Edith Piaf got a chance to change when the singer turned 36. She married the singer Jacques Pils, but soon the marriage broke up. She never learned to vote a family nest and create comfort. Her dwelling was a passing yard with piano to the pianc, poor furniture and traces of launch.

In the final of the life of the life of Edith Piaf in this dwelling, the son of Greek emigrants Teofanis Lambukis was taken. He turned out to be her long-standing fan. It was the last passion of the singer. The 20-year-old difference, as well as all other conventions, did not interest the woman. At that time, she already knew her scary diagnosis - cancer.

Edith married a young teofanis. She came up with him the scenic name of Teo SaratoPo and even tried - from the last diligent forces - to bring it on stage. Attempt failed. The newspapers snapped with evil articles about Alphonse and his elderly patronus. Nevertheless, they were happy.

Death

Sarapo with adoration looked at this exhausted disease, almost a bald woman and until the last days touching her. He took her to walk and fed. So the whole joint family life continued, which lasted 11 months. But Theo survived Edith for a long time. He crashed in the accident after 7 years after her death.

October 10, 1963 did not make legends. The church refused to disgust her and perform the burial ceremony, explaining that the whole life Edith Piaf was a solid sin.

But the fans of the singer did not think so. In the cemetery, Per Leshez, where the star was buried, more than 40 thousand people gathered. They brought with them such a number of colors that they were in a thick bowl of the whole alley to the grave.

Singer

"My life was disgusting - this is true. But my life was and delightful. Because I loved, above all, her life. And because I loved people, my friends, your lovers. " Edith Piaf.

Edith Giovanna Gasing was born at night on December 19, 1915 on the sidewalk of the Paris Street. Her mom's cycarica anette Mair wrapped a newborn girl in a raincoat of a police officer, called Edith, and after a month he gave up his parents to her parents. Papa Edith - Street Acrobat Louis Gassing Soon the daughter's postpoint hit the front during the First World War.

The parents of Anett Majar reacted to the upbringing of granddaughter very peculiar. Old men practically did not follow the child. In their menu, the main dish was considered the wine that they did not shy to give their little granddaughter, mixing it with milk. The illiterate grandmother did not soap a girl, and with a little Edith almost no one spoke. When Louis Gassion arrived in 1917 on vacation, he found his daughter not quite healthy, and leave the girl's girl's parents from the parents, Louis did not want. To pick up Edith to himself agreed His mother Louise Gassing, who worked as a kitchen in a public house, where the girl was laundered, dressed in a new dress, and it turned out that under the crust of the dirt was hiding a charming creature, but, alas, absolutely blind. It turned out that in the first months of life, Edith developed a cataract, but the grandmother and grandfather simply did not notice.

Louise Gassing did not regret money for the treatment of the girl, but the doctors were powerless. And since women from the house of tolerance trembled very trembled to the granddaughter Louise and were very pious, then sincerely believed in miracles and decided to pray to Saint Teresa so that she healed Edith. The hostess of the institution even promised to sacrifice the church of 10,000 francs if the miracle takes place. All the inhabitants of the public house along with Louise and the little Edith went on a mantis, after which he returned home and began to wait for healing, deciding that it would happen on August 25 on the day of St. Louis and his father's birthday Edith. After some time, it turned out that Edith, really - he was clear. She later told: "My life began with a miracle. In two years I got sick and blinded. I lived then at my grandmother in Normandy. Grandmother took me to Lizier to the Altar of Saint Teresia and poured my insight. Since then, I do not part with the images of St. Terezia and the baby Jesus. And because I am a believer, death does not scare me. There was a period in my life after the death of a man dear to me when I myself called her. I lost all hopes. I saved faith. I always believed that the period of life in the darkness gave me the ability to feel not as other people. Much later, when I wanted to fully understand, hear, "see" the song, I closed my eyes. "

When the war ended, the father of Edith returned home and sent a girl to school. But the parents of other children did not want a child who lives in a public house next to their siblings, and studying Edith quickly ended. At twelve years, Edith began to work with his father on the streets and squares of Paris. Louis showed the public the tricks, and Edith sang and collected money. The father tried to teach the daughter of acrobatics and the history of France, but the first Edith was absolutely not capable, and Louis was not suitable for the second. At fourteen, Edith decided that he could provide himself independently, and after extorting the next stepmother, he left his father, setting around to work in a dairy shop. But early raises and walks with a bunch of dairy bottles are quickly tired of the girl, and Edith returned to the former craft. At first she worked with two friends, and then with a consolidated sister Simonoy, the youngest daughter of her father. On the day of the sister earned about 300 francs, and they had enough money to pay a room in a bad hotel, buying new clothes, when dirt began to fall off from the old one, and not to lack fault and canned food. The sisters did not particularly think about the fact that things can be washed, prepare from the products, and wash the dishes.

In the life of Edith, men appeared early. She regularly fell in love, as regularly threw lovers, and her father's father Louis Dupon was no exception. Edith met him when she was seventeen years old, he was older than her for a year, and earned a living, breaking products by bike. He moved to the sisters on the same day when he met Edith, and a her daughter was born in her year later, which Parents called Marseille. Her birth practically did not change the life of Edith, she still worked a lot, and if Louis could not sit with the child, took her daughter with him. When Edith became singing in the Zhuan-Le-Pen cabaret, Dupont suggested Edith to choose between him and work. After the choice of Edith turned out to be in favor of the work, the sisters began to live together again, and since Edith sang every night, his daughter remained alone in the hotel. After one of his speeches, Edith found that the daughter took Louis, to whom she was not needed, but he thus hoped to return his beloved. No - it was not returned to him, and the little Cecile fell ill with Spanish flu, hit the hospital and soon died in his hands from Edith, who was short-lived, and after a few days after the funeral had fun in the company, not knowing that she would never be able to have children anymore.

When Edith turned twenty-two years old, she met the owner of the Zhernis cabaret Louis Leple. It happened when Otaboli Edith stood in October on the street in a large noise of coat with condensed elbows and in shoes, put on a boss foot. She was all stood out and for a long time standing at the crossroads waiting that someone from passersby would give a coin a street singer. One of the passers-by said: "Yes, you crazy - sing on the street in this weather!" The phrase belonged to the liner of the lord of the forty, in an elegant suit and like gloves. In his words, a stranger Edith heard a mockery, and Roughly replied: "But there is something to me!" She turned and went away, but a man asked her: "Do you want to perform in the cabaret?" - And Edith stopped. "My name is Louis Leple," the man continued. - I am the owner of the Zhernis cabaret. If you want, come tomorrow in four, I will listen to you. " He touched a piece of paper from the newspaper and wrote an address on it. "Yes, and now what, buy yourself to eat," - a stranger extended Edith a five-fingered banknote.

At the appointed time, she was late for a meeting. Angry lepale, standing at the entrance, said: "So-so. Late for an hour. Baby, what will happen next? " They entered the building of the cabaret, and Eith captured the Spirit. She never saw such a luxury. She did not know that "PRAINIS" - the most fashionable Parisian cabaret, where the cream of a secular society gather. "Stand on the stage and sing all the songs that you know," said Leple. The intuition of an experienced producer suggested: he found a nugget. After listening to Edith for two hours, he said: "In a week I will arrange you debut in the" Gernis ", and before that you will come to me at rehearsals every day." And yet, you need to come up with a pseudonym. " Carefully examined by Edith, Lepal said: "Well, of course, you are so small and fragile that you will be the name - Baby Piaf" (in the French "Piaf" means "saying").

The day before his debut, Edith bought three soves of black wool in the bench and tied the dress at night, did not have time to tie one sleeve in the evening. She came in the cabaret with her knitting, and Lepell found her in the dressing room with the knitting knats in his hands: "You need to be on the stage in five minutes!" The lepale was out of the dressing room and in a minute later with a white scarf, saying: "Cut a naked hand." Going to the stage, Edith realized that he had never experienced such fear in her life as in these moments. Ladies in diamonds and fur boa, men in tuxedoons and butterflies were watched from the hall to her. For them, Edith in a ridiculous dress, with a funny hairstyle and brightly smeared red mouth was like a monkey from the zoo. The public in the hall was having fun laughed, talked and cleverly traded delicacies. Edith got angry, and desperately and penetrated.

And with us, at the girls, nor the cola or the yard.

At the ridden-twisted, eh, in the pocket of the hole.

It would be nice girl to pass the evening.

It would be nice to make a girl's boyfriend ...

Nothing like Visitors "Gernis" did not hear. The hum in the hall of the Small, and only full of drama voice of the singer was heard. Edith told me: "Win! WORK! " When the song is over, there was no applause, no votes - an absolute silence was in the hall. And suddenly a squall of applause was heard. Behind the scenes satisfied with the pole rubbed his hands from pleasure.

Edith Piaf began to receive for the performance of 50 francs - for her it was a huge money, but even they managed to spend them immediately. In this, his friends were helped by Pygal Square, Sailors and Foreign Legion Soldiers. At once stopped singing on the street, the circle of its communication remained the same. Lepale looked at the lifestyle of the new star of his cabaret through his fingers. He understood that Edith is impossible to re-educate, and sometimes he himself joined a noisy company, paying from his pocket dinner with a different fans of Edith. Lepale sincerely believed in the talent of the singer and, using all his connections, tried to organize Piaff concerts on a big stage. Soon a suitable case was introduced. In Cannes, the annual charitable concert ball was to pass, where the most famous French artists were performed by tradition. Thanks to the troubles of Lepale, Piaff entrusted to act in the company Superstar - Maurice Chevalé and Marie Dubua. But at night, the day before the concert Louis Leple was killed. The accusation fell on Edith, and all the newspapers are natrel headlines "Sensation, sensation! Kill the owner "PRAINIS"! In the case of the Baby Piaf. " Edith remained without work, and decided not yet the scandal to go from Paris to the province. But rumors pursued her and there, there was no work and she had to return to the street again. It is not known how it's all over if it were not for a note that I found it in a leaky pocket under the lining coat in it was written "Reimon Asso" and the phone number. Edith strained all his memory to remember who could it be? "It seems the poet. Well, yes, for sure. We met him in "Gersillis". He said he would be glad to help me. " Edith returned to Paris and scored the room. "Reimon Asso listens." "This is Edith, that is, the baby Piaf." - "Edith, where did you fight? "-" I, I ... at the station, just returned to Paris. " - "Come to me immediately, remember the address."

After Edith came to Reonon, he said to her: "I know this profession and help you. But you will do what I tell you. Guys, borrowing - with this should be finished. " No one ever talked so with Edith, but she silent, because most of all wanted to sing. And at that moment, Piaf understood that she could not return to the scene without the help of Reimon.

Reimon kept the word and Mustered the singer on the full program. "Do not chasing, do not talk with a full mouth", "do not pour a glass to the edges," he explained Edith. And having learned that his ward does not know how to really write, Reonim came up with several options for autographs. Having taking ten times to the day with a Koriic handwriting: "In a sign of great sympathy" and "from the bottom of my heart," Edith looked like himself, as Reonon banned her to speak openly. At the same time, Remon wrote for Edith the repertoire. Every day they discussed new songs and rehearsed. Soon their perseverance brought the first fruits. The director of the largest concert hall of Paris ABC agreed to give the first branch of one of the concerts of Edith. On this day, the singer first made not as a baby Piaf, but as Edith Piaf. She performed new songs, destroyed with Reimon and roared a huge hall from delight, the audience did not want to let her go. She had to sing on the bis song from his old repertoire. And the presses the next day, caught off the delight, wrote: "Yesterday, the Great Singer of France was born on the stage of ABC."

The financial situation of Edith changed dramatically - she was able to afford to buy their own home in the center of Paris, whose finish was engaged in the best French designers. But Edith, walking into the mansion, chose to sleep in the concierge room - there she felt more cozy than in a huge bedroom with antique furniture. Her house has always been open for numerous friends. Some of them managed to live with Edith for the month, and even more. Champagne and caviar in the kitchen were not translated, but if someone asked Edith: "How much money is in your account?", It would hardly have received the answer. She always lived on the principle: there is money - well, no - I will earn. It was in her life and one more rule that she later wrote in her book: "When love cools, it needs it or heat, or throw it away. This is not the product that is stored in a cool place. "

After the start of World War II, Edith broke up with Rimon Asso. At that time, she met with the famous French director Jean Cocteau, who offered her to play in a small play of his writings "indifferent handsome man. Rehearsals were successful, and the play had a great success. It was first shown in the 1940 season, and soon the film director Georges Lakombus decided to remove the film on it. In 1941, the film "Montmartre on Seine" was filmed, in which Edith received a major role. Jean Kokto later told: "... For me, she was more than a singer. She was a soul, a mirror, a lively reflection of human grief, a desperate cry of suffering, a symbol of our loneliness and our sorrow. As soon as she began to sing, a miracle happened on stage. People have not seen this little glorious woman, dressed in black, almost insignificant, they covered a great feeling, this strong, incomparable voice that permeates you, makes you feel all the poverty and despair of mankind. Edith Piaf was more than a wonderful master of the song. She was a medium. Its influence was very large, but she was the only one, she was great, because she knew the suffering, and this suffering attached to her sincerity, the suffering that was not enough for her followers who took only her external "mask."

During the war, the French were able to appreciate the personal courage of Piaf, speaking in Germany in front of French prisoners of war. After the concert, along with autographs, she passed them all the necessary for escape. Edith Piaf also satisfied concerts in favor of the families of the dead, and the post-war time for her was the period of unprecedented success. She listened to the residents of Parisian offenders and sophisticated connoisseurs of art, workers and future Queen of England. Edith helped to start his way to success to many novice performers - Ivi Montana, the ensemble "Companion de la Chanson", Eddie Constantine and Charpets Aznavour.

When EDIT's discharges in France began to be published by millions of chairs, American impresario was interested in and offered to arrange a tour of the US cities. Going out of the ocean, Edith did not suspect that he would meet there the greatest love of his life - Frenchman Marseille Cerdan, boxing world champion.

Edith Marcel came to the concert by chance. He had free time, and he decided to visit the concert of Piaff, about which, at that time, American newspapers were written as "the most amazing singer." Then the boxer gained courage, and called the singer to the hotel to arrange a meeting. Marseille believed that in Talent, Edith Piaf is something supernatural. He said: "Edith, because you are only one third of my weight, I am on you, and you crumble! But what is your voice! In the head does not fit! " Next to the singer, the boxing champion is very robla, and therefore in the presence of Edith tried very little to speak and performed it any whim. He bought Edith her first mink manot. She could buy herself ten such manto. "But ... I would not have come in my life, and he guessed," said the singer. In response, she gave Marsel diamond cufflinks, costumes and shoes from crocodile leather. In America, they appeared everywhere together - the best French singer and the best French boxer. But in Casablanca Marseille was waiting for the wife of Marinetta and the sons of Marseille and Rene, to whom a small sex was added over time. And Marseille observed decency for the sake of family. One day, Edith during his next tour in America, I was looking forward to the arrival of Cordan from Paris. But he had to come only in a week, and Edith called him to France and asked: "Marseille, for God's sake, soon come. Steamer, plane - how do you want! I can not live without you!" - "Good, dear, I will cure tomorrow. I love you".

Edith stood behind the scenes of the New York hall "Versailles", preparing for a speech when she was given that the plane on which Surdan flew to America was crashed in the Azores. Marseille was among the dead passengers. His corpse was identified by the clock that the famous boxer had a habit of carrying on both hands. Nobody thought that Edith would be able to sing after that. But she went out on stage and said a deaf voice: "I will sing in honor of Marseille Cordan. Just for the sake of it. "

After this tragedy, Edith began the hardest depression. She began to drink, looking for salvation from longing in Spiritis. She went to the streets, dressed in old clothes, sang and rejoiced that no one would know her. She returned home, leading to men whose names could not remember the names. Marsel's longing, seemed to kill everything wishes in it, and once, having received a telegram from his beloved wife, she went to the airport among the night and flew into Casablanca. The death of Marseille united these two women, and the common tears made them girlfriends. The sons of Marseille were literally fascinated by "Aunt Zizi", Edith brought all the family to visit, and they stayed with Edith for a while. Soon, Marinetta returned home with her sons, but the friendship of the widow and mistress of Marseille Cordan continued for quite a long time.

A few years after the death of Cerdan, Edith Piaf fell into a car disaster. She broke her hand and two ribs, but the injuries received did not imagine a threat to life. But they caused severe pain, and to remove it, Ediths of drugs. She quickly recovered, pains passed, but arthritis began to torment her, and she continued to take drugs, which began to reflect on her mental health. Once the singer tried to throw out from the window, and only the presence of her friend Margherit Mono saved her life. After that, Edith coped with his grief as he knew how: he survived himself with people, drank, but only concerts were brought to her real salvation. Edith said: "I live only on stage ... I will always sing, and that day, when I will stop-die."

The health of the singers loosened at a huge speed, she almost did not leave the hospitals. After the death of Marseille, Edith survived the four courses of disintellation (treatment of alcoholism and drug addiction), three hepatic coma, two attacks of white hot, seven operations and two bronchopneumonia. And then the doctors diagnosed - "cancer", although the patient herself did not know about it. But the disease had a great influence on its appearance. Edith Piaff strongly lost weight, she squeezed her hair, and her face, according to eyewitness reviews, resembled a "skull, covered with skin." However, despite the health problems, Piaf continued to attract men. One of her men was a musician Jacques Bremen, followed by Galerist Andre Sheller and chanson Georges Mustaki. All of them were younger than Edith, who spoke with sadness: "Popularity has its own minuses. Now all men when sleeping with me, do not forget for a minute, they deal with the Piaf itself. "

In forty-five years old, the singer looked at sixty.

During this period of his life, the singer fulfilled its best songs in which the pain and bitterness were connected with a desperate challenge to fate, with the desire to still live and love.

This and "Padam, Padam", written by her old friend Henri Conte, and Milord, whose words belong to Mustak.

And, of course, "I do not regret anything" - the immortal masterpiece, which in September 1960 brought Piaff a young poet Charles Damon.

"Non! Rien de Rien ...
Non! JE NE REGRETTE RIEN ...
Ni Le Bien Qu'on M'a Fait,
Ni Le Mal Tout C5 A M'est Bien E'Gal ... »

"Not! Nothing about anything ...
Not! I do not regret anything -
Not about good that I did,
Neither about evil, which I do not remember.

"I'm starting my life from scratch" - so the song ended, after which the huge hall of Olympia was shaking the ovation.

With his last spouse, the 26-year-old Greek hairdresser Teofanis Lambucas Piaf met when she once again fell into the hospital. "Madame, in the corridor, some young man asks permission to go to your ward." "Probably a fan," he thought Edith, and nodded in the sign of consent. On the threshold there was a high young man, dressed in all black, with dark hair and the same eyes. "My name is Teo. A month ago we were presented to each other, but you were too busy to talk to me. " He approached and handed her a little doll. From surprise, Edith lashed: "You know, I have already come out of this age." - "But this is an unusual doll. She is from Greece, from my homeland. She will bring you good luck. " The next day he came with flowers. So the week went on. And every time he brought some trifle. Edith, who spent the state of gifts to men, suddenly realized that only sincere attention was valuable. "In a few months, Teo asked Edith:" Do you want to be my wife? " Piaff replied: "Theo, it is impossible! .. I had a very difficult life ... My past stretches for me, like a heavy cargo ... I am much older than you, almost twice." "You're born for me that day when I saw you," Teo replied to her. Ediths did not have enough strength to refuse him, and later she admitted: "I truly loved only Marseille Cordan. And the whole life was waiting for the Ooo Sarapo. " Surname Sarapo appeared when Piaf decided to make a pop star from Teo. The only Greek phrase known to her, meaning "I love you" sounded "Sarato".

Before the wedding Theo introduced the bride with his parents and two sisters. And Edith for the first time for himself opened the joy of life in the atmosphere of the real family. Solemn marriage took place on October 9, 1962 in the Orthodox Church, to which TEO belonged. Shortly after that, happy Edith gave a concert of the Wpoarzyskaya "Olympia", after the performance in which the audience chant chant: "High-Hoi, Edith!" But only the Teo knew about the opinion of doctors - Edith Piaf remained to live a maximum year.

In April 1963, Edith refused the liver, and she was in an unconscious state in the hospital of the city of Neui. After treatment, her condition began to improve, and she left south, in the village of Plaska. But soon it became clear that it was impossible to save the singer.

Edith could not eat, suffered from terrible pain, and its weight decreased to 34 kilograms. She died, not coming into consciousness on October 10, 1963, but the official date of her death was October 11, when the body on a special plane was taken to Paris.

The official body of the Vatican, "L" SSERVATOR Romano "banned to bury Edith Piaff in accordance with the religious rite, and accused her that she lived" in a state of public sin. "" It was, - he announced, - an idol of fabricated happiness. " The Naucharge archbishop adhered to another opinion: "If he cannot be rendered to church honors," he said, "the confessor of theatrical actors and musicians will be prayed for the artist on the Cemetery of Per Lashhesis." Friendly feelings of the Nice Prelate, Marten Monsignor, softened the Vatican severity, and He is like a private facilitated by Edith Piaf in the last way a few hours before the legend of his land on October 14, 1963.

At that moment, when the cata effect with the body of the singer and the three cars following him with the color of Paris, who came to the street, the residents of Paris turned the last path of Edith Piaf in the funeral of the national scale. From the house number 67 on Lann Boulevard to the cemetery of Per-Leshas, \u200b\u200bbehind her coffin was forty thousand people, whom the police could not hold back at neither the gate of the cemetery or near the family crypt. During a farewell word, the music publisher Jacques Enos said: "A whole direction of the French song went with death Edith Piaf."

In the book, Edith Piaf "My Life" was written:

My true vocation is singing.
Sing, whatever happens!
My songs are me, my flesh,
My head, my heart, my soul.
My songs are my life.

About the life of Edith Piaf was filmed a number of documentaries.

The text was prepared by Tatiana Khalina ( www.edithpiaf.forum24.ru.
Simon Berto. "Edith Piaf"
Edith Piaf "My Life"
Pierre Dyuklo, George Marten "Edith Piaf"

Edith Piaf did not recognize the Hangehole Moral and obeyed only his feelings. Solitude is afraid, the Great Singer rushed into the fiery of passions. And submissively accepted by the fallen part of the suffering, repeating: "For love you need to pay bitter tears."

Beginning of legend

A tiny figurine in a worn coat appeared in the poorest quarter of Paris in the evening, stopped at the corner and suddenly fell. Hurrying passersby froze, looking a powerful voice of a little tanker.

The girl was called Edith Giovanna Gassjon, she was only fifteen. After years, she will remember these street performances and selflessly design the legend of his life. Even tell that the mother gave birth right on the dirty sidewalk ...

In fact, Edith was born in the clinic of Belleville - a disadvantaged Parisian district. Mother, a cheap cabaret singer named Annette, saw and worked as a prostitution. She quickly lost interest in the baby and sent her to her parents-alcoholics.

Father returned from the front, seeing, in which the little ones got a baby Edith, immediately took a painful girl to his mother - the mistress of the brothel. Strange, but in such an unsuitable place for the child, Edith lived well: the girls cared for her, fed and dressed up.

In three years, the girl blinded: due to infection, the corneals of the eyes were infected. When the doctors could not help her, the priests of love died into modest clothes and went to church - to pray to the Holy Teresa about recovery. And the miracle happened!

Life in the public house made Edith tolerant to someone's vices, but I distorted her idea of \u200b\u200blove: "I was not sentimental, it seemed to me that the woman should follow the man in the first call."

Not easy freedom

In Fourteen, Edith has already performed at the Paris streets with the father-acrobat, and then settled in a cheap hotel with a summary sister Momon. So began her independent life ...

"Many people think that my young years were terrible. This is not the case, they were beautiful! - spoke singer. - Yes, I'm starving, Merzla on the streets. But it was free: it could get up late, dream, hope ... "

In sixteen, Edith fell in love with the emission of Dupona and gave birth to a daughter from him, which Marcella called him. However, soon almost forgot about the existence of both: every day she sang on the street, and in the evening Korotala in a cafe in the company of small vorays.

In the hope of returning a windy girlfriend Louis took the daughter to himself. But two years later, deprived of care, Marsell died from meningitis. The death of the baby shook Edith, but she preferred to live the future. A young woman could not think that she was not destined to become a mother ...

Hanging bird

Edith's new friend became Ham Albert. He took most of the money that Edith earned singing, and tried to make her serve customers. Edith refused, and one day he put a blow of a pistol blow to the temple of his mistress.

The girl escaped when a girlfriend Nadia, who did not want to engage in prostitution, decided to reduce the scores with life. Twenty-year-old Edith rolled over the inclined, and then fate unexpectedly gave her a chance to salvation: her singing heard Louis Leple, the owner of the Zhernis cabaret.

Edith so nervous that hardly failed listening. But it was worth it to sing, as the trail left from the excitement. The lepale looked around a miniature girl and came up with a pseudonym - the baby Piaf (Piaf is translated as "Varobushki").

The "fighting bird" for the debut tied a simple black dress. Her unpretentious appearance with interest was compensated by a powerful voice, and from the first song she conquered a discerning public. The lepale realized that he found a real diamond, and began his cut: he trained Edith the basics of scenic skills, introduced into secular circles.

A serene life lasted long. In April 1936, Louis Lepale was found killed in his apartment, and the shocked Edith considered an partner of the crime. The press wrote in detail about the former connections of the singer with the criminal world.

The poet Raymont Asso came to the rescue. He became a new producer of "singing birds", made a contract with the famous ABC theater and left the ward of dubious buddies.


Edith Piaf and Raymont Asso

By the end of the 1930s, Edith turned into a successful and secured singer. Raymon unceremoniously turned to her Galatea, forcing her to behave correctly in society. Joint work quickly turned into a stormy novel.

Time to give

Fortunately prevented the Second World War. Raymont went to the front, and Edith spun a novel with actor Maurice. "I hate loneliness, I'm just not able to live in an empty house!" - she sighed. Restrained Paul was the exact opposite of society Edith, but they were drawn to each other.

During the war, the most famous singer of France not only continued to perform speeches, but also managed to help the prisoners of war. "If God allowed me to earn so much, then this is only because he knows: I will give everything," Edith assured. And I kept the word, generously gave everyone.

Piaf did not bother either money or feelings. She plunged into relationships, forgetting everything, she was torn by an unbridled passion and jealousy.

In 1944, at one of the concerts, a new star was noticed by a spent chanson named Iv Montan. The friends accompanying the singer, having heard his singing, came to full delight and long applauded.

"I don't know what you find in it," Piaf noticed irritably. - He sings terribly and does not know how to dance, and in addition to everything else and such a narcissist! "

Nevertheless, pleasures convinced Edith to change the anger to mercy. She looked at another speech Montana and recognized: the guy has abilities. Piaf was so honest with him and others, which even apologized to the sign of the words, spoke in a narrow circle of friends.

Yves Montan and Edith Piaf

Thirty-year-old Piaf became Montana's mentor, wrote a song for him, introduced the right people. She argued that only Platonic relations are associated with it. But it believed in it ...

In the ring with fate

After the war, Glory Edith overcame the ocean, and the singer was offered a tour of the United States. At its concert in New York, the world champion in boxing Marcel Sedan, the French of Arab origin, was accidentally. The reputation of the exemplary family man did not prevent him from starting to care for the Piaf.

Dinner in a luxurious restaurant turned into a date. Marseille was the first man who needed Eith himself, and not in her talent, connections or money. He gave a piaff jewelry, invited to the matches and did not hide his love.

Marseille Sedan and Edith Piaf

Next to the "Sparrow", the boxer turned into a manual bear. Edith knitted his beloved sweaters and accompanied on training. "Relations with Marseille gave my chaotic life a certainty equilibrium," she recalled.

In the fall of 1949, Piaf again acts in the United States and desperately missed the Hearts left in Europe. "I beg, come faster!" - Screamed Edith in the handset. He, too, could not have failed to see, he wanted her plea and refused the idea to sail with a steamer.

The plane crashed over the Azores Islands ... Such is the end of the fairy tale about the queen of music and king Ring.

Anthem Love

The news of the death of his beloved Him Edith. Sister hardly kept her from suicide, but I could not save the self-destruction. "I do not want to live, I'm already dead," Piaf repeated, looking for oblivion in drugs and alcohol.

The singer attended spiritual sessions and sat for the clock alone, facing them with reproach. A woman immersed in severe depression was hardly like a great piaff, who had recently sparkling happiness.

Edith's loss recover never succeeded. In memory of Marseil, she wrote the song "Hymn of Love", which never fulfilled. Rare concerts of Piaf were held with a tragic supervision that saved her the fame of the singers of grief.

Charles Aznavour and Edith Piaf

Loneliness Edith asked a little friendship with a young singer Charl, Aznavour, who had assumed the duties of the Personal Secretary. And again, the tragedy was almost happened - Edith and Charles got into heavy automobile accident.

To stroke pain in a broken arm and ribs, the doctor prescribed Piaf Morphy. Relateds did not recognize the singer: she lived from a dose to a dose, purposefully destroyed themselves. Even the novel and subsequent marriage with chanson Jacques Pilla did not give her strength.

For four years of family life, Piaff often seeing his doctors and nurses than with her husband. Jacques, loyal and caring spouse, unfortunately, also suffered from alcoholism. The outcome of the marriage was predetermined.

Trying to drown pain ...

After the divorce, the singer was waiting for the next accident and the next attempts to drown out pain Morphy. "I experienced an indomitable need to destroy myself," she admitted. "But, approaching the edge of the abyss, I wanted to rise to the top all the time."

The premonition of Piaf did not deceive: the fate presented a farewell gift to the 47-year singer. The 27-year-old Greek Teofanis Lambucas was beautiful and well folded. And he looked at Edith with her dark eyes as her dark eyes, that she surrendered ...

Teo Sarapo. And Edith Piaf.

So the hairdresser with a difficult name turned into a singer Teo Sarato. Edith chose this name, remembering that "Sarato" in Greater means "I love you." Because the losses of the sickness and sorrows loses the loss of the sickness again.

In October 1962, the couple had married. Many considered the Greek Alfonsus, but theo touching his wife, and the voices of the ill-wishers of Smallkley. He drove Piaf in a wheelchair, did not move away from the bed of his wife for a second and thoroughly hid a scary diagnosis of cancer from her.

But Edith felt the approach of death and therefore forced her husband to give an oath: he would never fly on airplanes. Theo kept the promise, but it was not possible to deceive fate: he died in a car accident, surviving his wife for only seven years.

But it was later, and then Theo had to put a point in a beautiful and sad legend Edith Piaf. She died on October 10, 1963 on Riviera. Pouring tears, Theo put the body of his wife into the car and rushed to Paris. He understood: the life of the Great Piaff should end in the same place where it began - in the city of Love.

Several facts

The singer got his name in honor of the nurse Edith Kwell, who was shot by the Germans in the First World War.

Louis Lepal strictly punished singer to wear a black dress at concerts. Later, black dresses became the signature sign of the singer.

Edith learned about the death of Marseille on the day of the next concert, but found the strength to go on the stage, saying that he would sing for her beloved.

Having learned about the death of Edith, her friend and poet Jacques Cocteau, quietly said: "I want to die next." He left his life in a few hours.

Theo did everything so that the audience would have the impression that Edith died in Paris. He believed that the singer who personified France should complete his way in this city.

Height Edith Piaf 1.47 m. Zodiac sign - Sagittarius. Birthday - December 19, 1915. Death Day - October 10, 1963 (Graz, France).