The most famous French singer was born in 1915 in the family of an acrobat and an unsuccessful actress. Edith Giovanna Gassion was not a particularly coveted child and soon her mother left her, and her father (acrobat) was on the front at that time. After he returned home, he learned that his daughter was living in confusion where and with whom. The girl lived in unsanitary conditions, and that she did not meshavlazroslym, in her milk for a long time poured alcohol. Edith's father took his daughter and sent to his mother in Normandy, his mother worked as a cook in a brothel.
It was in the public house that it became known that the girl was blind, then to help her grandmother go to the monastery and pray for the recovery of her granddaughter, and, oh, a miracle, Edith's eyes. At the age of 6, the girl began to see, eventually went to school, but she ceased to study in her school, because her parents did not want to see a girl from a brothel near her children. Next, the father takes the girl to Paris, where during her acrobatic performances the girl sang.
Life with his father did not differ from life in a brothel, his father often changed his mistresses, the girl roslasama by himself, and from time to time, when he got drunk, pestered Edith. The girl understood that they needed to leave the house urgently. In 1932, at the age of 17, she became acquainted with the father of her daughter Louis Dupont, but the relationship of a young couple is not laid, Edith takes the child and begins to live separately. At this time in Paris, rampant "Spaniard" and Edith, and her daughter Marcel fall ill, but the girl dies.
The murdered little girl, who is not yet 20 years old for lack of money for a funeral, dies for a desperate act to engage in prostitution. It was her first and last time, she was noticed by a rich man near the hotel, invited to the room and asked why she was doing it, Edith honestly confessed that she did not have enough 10 francs to buy her daughter's coffin. Surprised by the rich man gives Edith 10 francs (they talked and she told about her fate and what she does), and also writes on paper the address of one cabaret, in which the next day will be audition of young singers. Edith was auditioned and during the next two years she performed at the restaurant Zhernis, at the same time her first popularity comes to her.
The owner of the restaurant teaches Edith all the wonders of singing, and also comes up with the pseudonym Piaf, which in French means sparrows. After the death of his mentor, Piafznakomitsya with the poet Raymond Aso, this man not only became her lover, but also her personal stylist, because he taught the worldly manners.
And so, her finest hour came: Piaf was invited to sing in a well-known music hall of Paris "ABC". The public took her singing with sobscheniem, and the press wrote that in France a world-level star was born. At the age of 30 she is popular and in demand, under her write scripts and Piaf is no longer just a singer, but also an actress. Despite the popularity of the blondes, which were much more beautiful than the ordinary little Piaf, Edith is transformed into a movie star. On the set of the next film, Edith Piaf and then the nonspecially famous Yves Montand turn into lovers. She is a few years older than him, and she has more experience, turns him into a protege, helping the popular one.
Edith Piaf was in the habit of helping all her lovers-one to be realized, to others financially. Even Edith was famous for her ability to throw men, in her life she clearly adhered to the opinion that you need to throw men before they start thinking about it. She had all her lovers, and after the break up of relations she gave me several ties and a blue sweater. As a result, after two years of relationship with handsome Montan, she throws it very suddenly.
Edith Piaf loved male attention and at the same time could have three or more lovers, they were replaced, and she continued to conquer the scene. There was a passion and romanticism, when these feelings disappeared, she threw this or that man. The singer once joked that if you collect the numbers of all her lovers, then there will be a telephonic guide. And so, during the tour, she gets to know the love of her life - Marcel Cerdan, then the European champion in boxing.
Serdan and Piaf did not conceal their relationship, she was his mistress, and he was a married man with three children.
Officially, Serdana even made friends with Piaf, and her children did not like the soul in the singer (although such warm relations between her mistress and Serdan's official wife began only after the death of Marcel).
Their romance ended in tragedy, while Marcel flew from Paris to New York in a plane flight, Piaf went into drinking, but nevertheless continued from time to time. She nervously cut off her hair. As a result, the singer turned valkolichku, allowed herself to go drunk on the stage and her career, as well as personal life went downhill. Piaf could not drown out the pain after the loss of her beloved.
Once she started talking to the dwarves right on the stage, later she was diagnosed as a white fever. After a while, she decided to end her life with suicide, but she was rescued. Two years after the death of Serdan, Piaf falls into a car crash, after which the doctors literally collected it in pieces. In the hospital, she is given morphine to dull the pain and sooner she can not imagine her life without this drug.
During the next four years, the detonator works exclusively for this drug and works very persistently, as it is known that morphine causes depression and it is difficult to work in this state.
Once, in a drug accident, she saw the face of her mother, who died at the age of 50 from an overdose of morphine and the singer decided to completely tie her with this drug. Piaf got rid of the addiction to morphine, but continued to consume alcohol.
Despite her pernicious habits, Edith continued to work, and also to turn novels. Her last love was the 27-year-old hairdresser Theo Lambucas. They met at the hospital (long-term use of drugs and alcohol could not affect her health), where Piaf was treated for liver cancer. Soon Theoi Edith will marry. In joint photos, he and she look happy.
In 1963, Piaf died, and her young husband is left with nothing, because everything that he did not have from the famous actress is her debts, which he had to pay after her death.
