The French pop singer was born Edith Giovanna Gassion.
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She was named after a British nurse named Edith Cavell who helped 200 Allies escape from the Germans. This is interesting considering that Piaf herself saved many lives of French P.O.W.s.
Edith Piaf
Edith Piaf .
Paris, France. as much a landmark of the Capital as the Eiffel Tower.
No doubt that is Édith Piaf, born in Belleville, Paris in 1915 and died in 1963 of liver cancer.
Marion Cotillard played an adult Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose, a film also known as La mome, although the musical parts were performed by Jil Aigrot. A five- and ten-year-old Edith also appeared in the film, played by Manon Chevallier and Pauline Burlet respectively.