Édith Piaf

  • Édith Piaf: A Cultural History
    By David Looseley

    The world-famous French singer Édith Piaf (1915-63) was never just a singer. This book suggests new ways of understanding her, her myth and her meanings over time at home and abroad, by proposing the notion of an 'imagined' Piaf.

  • Édith Piaf: A Cultural History
    By David Looseley

    Dozens of biographies of her, of variable quality, have seldom got beyond the well known and usually contested 'facts' of her life. This book suggests new ways of understanding her.

  • Edith Piaf
    By Charles Dumont

    Comment ne pas pleurer quand on écoute Edith Piaf ? La regarder vivre dans ces pages, la comprendre peut-être ? Disparue il y a cinquante ans déjà. C'était hier. Elle...

  • Edith Piaf
    By Albert Bensoussan

    Au-delà de toute mythologie – l’enfance pauvre à Belleville, sainte Thérèse lui redonnant la vue qu’elle avait perdue, l’usage de la morphine, ses nombreuses histoires d’amours avec Cerdan, Montand, Moustaki, etc. –, Albert ...

  • Édith Piaf
    By Albert Bensoussan

    Au-delà de toute mythologie – l’enfance pauvre à Belleville, sainte Thérèse lui redonnant la vue qu’elle avait perdue, l’usage de la morphine, ses nombreuses histoires d’amours avec Cerdan, Montand, Moustaki, etc. –, Albert ...

  • Edith Piaf: My Universe
    By Guy Deloeuvre

    The legend stemming from the imagination of a journalist, and maintained by Piaf, gave birth to her on 19 December 1915 in Paris, at 72, rue de Belleville, in the 20th arrondissement, according to the plaque affixed to the house located at ...

  • Edith Piaf
    By Marc Lemonier

    La voix d’Édith Piaf est célèbre dans le monde entier. Pourtant, c’est dans les ruelles de Belleville qu’a débuté le destin digne d’un roman de la petite Édith. La voix...

  • Edith Piaf: My Universe
    By Guy Deloeuvre

    The legend stemming from the imagination of a journalist, and maintained by Piaf, gave birth to her on 19 December 1915 in Paris, at 72, rue de Belleville, in the 20th arrondissement, according to the plaque affixed to the house located at ...

  • Édith Piaf: A Cultural History
    By David Looseley

    The world-famous French singer Édith Piaf (1915-63) was never just a singer. This book suggests new ways of understanding her, her myth and her meanings over time at home and abroad, by proposing the notion of an ‘imagined’ Piaf.