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.
A famous French chanteuse, or singer.Edith Giovanna Gassion was born on 19 December 1915. Abandoned by her mother, she was placed by her traveling-showman father in the care of the madam of a cheap...
Hemmoraghes caused by internal bleeding, that was the official white-room verdict as she was dead on arrival at a Paris Hopital. (yeah, that"s the spelling) Think of the hospital ship- U.SS Hope, as...