Edith Piaf - No regrets: Legacy of a French songbird LIKE many stars, Edith Piaf, born Edith Gassion in 1915, accumulated a lot of myths around her life even as she made musical magic, and they ...

Edith Piaf, dead now for nearly 50 years, has become one of France’s great national monuments, as lucratively exportable a product as Maurice Chevalier, Claude Monet and Crépes Suzettes. Everyone here ...

The baptismal certificate of French singer Edith Piaf is displayed during a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of her death, on October 10, 2013, at the Saint- Jean-Baptiste de Belleville ...

Édith Piaf (born Édith Giovanna Gassion, 19 December 1915 – 10 October 1963) was a French singer, lyricist and actress. Noted as France's national chanteuse, she was one of the country's most widely ...

Piaf was born Edith Giovanna Gassion on 19 December 1915 in Belleville, one of the poorest parts of Paris – as legend has it, on the steps of a slum building. Her father, Louis Gassion, a street ...

French singer Edith Piaf was born on December 19, 1915. Ahead of her 100th anniversary, here's a celebration of a life forever associated with Paris. Only a couple of wilted carnations in a black vase ...