Two years after her birth, Édith Piaf lost Marcelle died of meningitis on 7 July 1935.During this time, Édith Piaf lived for a few months of odd jobs but resumed her vocation as a street singer with her partner Momone, a street singer like herself with whom she had started at the age of fourteen.In the autumn of 1935, she was noticed on the street and engaged for a week by the manager of the cabaret Le Gerny's, located on the Champs-Elysee. She was an immediate success and sang there for seven months. In Édith Piaf's Horoscope:On July 7, 1935, her daughter Marcelle died of meningi...

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