Word: cerdan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even in success, la vie en rose eluded Edith Piaf. Her greatest love, Boxer Marcel Cerdan, was killed in a plane crash in 1949, and her first marriage ended in divorce. Four separate automobile accidents all but crushed her frail body, and she was racked with ulcers, jaundice, arthritis, and cirrhosis of the liver. She took to drugs and young men, married her second husband, Hairdresser Théo Sarapo, 25, only last year, when she was 46. Each misfortune marred her voice but only seemed to give new poignancy to her artistry. Despite doctors' warnings, the nearly crippled...