Marcel Proust
1871–1922
Novelist of "In Search of Lost Time"
Père-Lachaise Cemetery, division 85, Paris
In memory of
Édith Piaf
Singer of the Paris streets
- Born
- Died
- Lived
- 47 years
- Resting place
- Père-Lachaise Cemetery, division 97, Paris, France
Piaf sang on street corners as a teenager and was discovered outside a cabaret at nineteen. Barely a metre and a half tall, she became the voice of France with "La Vie en rose" and "Non, je ne regrette rien".
She died at forty-seven, worn out by illness and morphine. The archbishop of Paris refused her a funeral mass; forty thousand people followed her coffin to Père-Lachaise anyway, and traffic in the city stopped.
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