Word: piaf
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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...
Raymond Radiguet, Cocteau took to opium, later kicked the habit and led a campaign against dope addiction. At moments he could be as sentimental as any Piaf song, which is why it was difficult to take him seriously as a poet of evil. Yet guardians of public morality damned his books (Les Parents Terribles), plays (The Infernal Machine), and films (Beauty and the Beast) as immoral and unhealthy...
Grief for the Academician and the former street singer was nationwide-the French only bury their politicians but mourn their artists. With the deaths of Piaf and Cocteau, France had been robbed of two incomparable figures, whose joint epitaph might well be Piaf's defiant song, Je ne regrette rien...
Died. Edith Piaf, 47, France's premiere chanteuse and petite (4 ft. 10 in., 90 lbs.) "sparrow of the streets"; of a hemorrhage of the spleen; in Paris (see THE WORLD...
Died. Jean Cocteau, 74, France's Jack-of-all-arts; of a heart attack, on hearing of Edith Piaf s death; in Milly-la-Forêt, France (see THE WORLD...