Rien de Rien

La Vie en Rose

Starring: Marion Cotillard

Directed by:Olivier Dahan

Premiered in 2007 at the Berlin Film

festival

In France, it is called “La Mome”

Edith Piaf museum

L'effet qu'tu m'fais

“My songs are myself, my

flesh, my blood, my head, my

heart, my soul.”

Padam Padam

Born December 19th, 1915 in Paris

Edith Giovanna Gassion

Mother:Annetta Giovanna

MaillardA singer

Father:Louis-Alphonse Gassion

A street acrobat Monsieur Lenoble

She left her fathers care

when she was 15 years old.

Edith first sang at 14 years old, in public to help

earn more money.

Edith became a street singer

herself with her friend simone

berteaut.

She fell in love with delivery

boy, louis Dupont at 16

years old.

Un refrain courait dans la rue

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Mon manege a moi

Louis Leplee

Discovered edith piaf or “la mome” as he called her.

La rue aux chansons

Made her into the edith piaf that we

now know.

Raymond Asso

A french song writer.

Mon légionnaire

“Basing your life on a dream is something that always surprises the skeptics, but our entire life is made up of chance happenings, good or bad, against which human will is virtually powerless.”

L'homme à la moto

Yves Montand

Charles Aznavour

Les

Compag

nons

Les trois cloches

Marcel

CerdanBoxing

champion in France.

Became World champion in

1948.

Married but had a summer long

affair with edith.

Hymne à l'amour

Edith piaf was in a car crash in

1951.

She broke her arm and two

ribs but refused to stop

performing.

Dans les prisons de Nantes

“It’s true that I’ve always wanted to have courage. They say that it’s a masculine quality. But I believe that it’s women who ‘cope’ best when things are

going badly.”

La Foule

Jacques Pills

Theo Sarapo

je t’ai dans la peau

1st marriage

2nd marriage

“The essential thing is to love, to be loved, to be happy and in harmony with yourself.”

Le Bel Indifferent et La P’tite Lili

Tatave

Eartha Kitt

Frank Sinatra

“The day of an American is an exhausting one. He excepts this philosophically, but when it is over he wants to relax. He knows very well that there is a coarser side of life where rogues abound…indeed; he has to deal with it everyday…but in the evening he wants to forget about it.

His needs and tastes are simple and unsophisticated. Why, he asks himself, when he has deposited his cares in the cloak-room with his hat,

does this little French woman have to sing her miserable songs about miserable people?”

C'est si bon

Milord

Died on October 11th, 1963. She is buried at

Cimetiere du Pere Lachaise in Paris.

Her last recorded song was

“L’homme de Berlin”.

She was only 47.

L’homme de Berlin

Non, je ne regrette rien

Fin

Madeleine qu'avait du cœur

Bibliography

http://www.little-sparrow.co.uk/

http://www.edithpiaf.com/biography.php

http://www.cdmusicrobot.com/the-stories-behind-the-sounds/edith-piaf-eminent-street-chanteuse.html

Piaf, Edith, and Jean Noli. My Life. Ed. Margaret Crosland. Peter Owen. Print.Piaf, Edith. The Wheel of Fortune: the Autobiography of Edith Piaf. Trans. Peter Trewartha and Andree Masoin De Virton. Peter Owen, 1965. Print.

Books

Web

MediaLa Vie En Rose. Dir. Oliver Dahan. Perf. Marion Cotillard. DVD.

Edith Piaf. 50 Grandes Chansons. 2010. MP3.