Édith Piaf’s last years were pathetic. She compensated for the physical suffering, due to several automobile accidents, the disease and several surgical operations, by morphine and alcohol which corroded her, revealing even more its physical brittleness which contrasted so much with her clear and powerful voice. She sang successfully in New York until she collapsed on stage in 1959. In 1961, she performed at the Olympia in Paris to save its director Bruno Coquatrix from bankruptcy.Édith Piaf died on October 10, 1963 at 13:10 in Grasse, on the Cote d’Azur (Alpes-Maritimes) in France at 47...

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