Édith Piaf was born on 19 December 1915 in Paris during the First World War. Her father was an contortionist and antipodiste circus artist born in Castillon in France. Her mother was a street singer, born in Livorno, Italy.She was reared first by her maternal grandmother who left her without care and then by her paternal grandmother, madam of a brothel in Normandy. This gave her material security in her early years.According to legend, between the ages of three and six, she was blinded in both eyes. Her grandmother, together with Édith and all her boarders, went on a pilgrimage to the tomb o...

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