Champs-Élysées - ASTROLOGY OF THIRD MILLENNIUM

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Apr

Édith Piaf singer on the Champs Élysées

At the end of September 1935, Louis Leplee, manager of the cabaret Le Gerny's on the Champs Élysées met Édith Piaf singing between Avenue Mac-Mahon and rue Troyon in the Pigalle district in Paris. On 2 October 1935, he hired him for a week and gave him her artist's name la Môme Piaf (the Brat Sparrow). Piaf, the sparrow so frail in relation to her physical that contrasted so much with the power of her voice. She was so successful that he extended her contract until 6 April 1936, the day he was murdered. A Pigalle thug, knew of Édith Piaf, shot him in the head. She underwent 48 hours in cu...

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Apr

Édith Piaf success and crime on the Champs Élysées

Édith Piaf was confirmed as a success at the beginning of 1936. She recorded her first album for Polydor Les Mômes de la cloche which was a success. Her engagement at Gerny's on the Champs Élysées was renewed week after week until the murder of her manager Louis Leplee, on 6 April 1936. A thug of Pigalle, the old neighborhood where Édith Piaf had begun as a street singer, shot him in the head. She was arrested for questioning for 48 hours and then released for lack of evidence. Despite the seriousness of the situation, her career continued in music halls as Bobino and the Europeen in the ...

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