EDIT PIAF: “HAPPINESS NEEDS TO FLY TLEAS!”

Edith Piaf’s life story is both happy and tragic at the same time. On Shapnel Boulevard, a man came up to the grubby nineteen-year-old girl, and the couple headed to the hotel. The girl looked so miserable that he asked: “Why are you doing this?” “I need to bury my daughter, not enough ten francs,” she replied. The man gave her the money and left. Edith Giovanna’s only daughter Gaceon died. She will survive four car accidents, a suicide attempt, two attacks of delirium tremens, the first and second world wars, will drive the crowds of men crazy and die before they reach fifty. Continue reading →