Word: piaf
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...down at heel. The decor-very modern—was shabby; the champagne-very expensive-was poor. The worn-looking, faded singer who came on half an hour after midnight matched the setting well. She had frizzled brown hair, a little black dress and cork-soled shoes. She was called La Piaf (Parisian argot for sparrow...
Victor Hugo or Maupassant might have written the life story of La Piaf. Two policemen assisted at her birth in a Montmartre street 30 years ago. When she was two and a half, she was struck blind-according to her. She was cured, at seven, when she and her grandmother visited the Normandy shrine of Ste. Thérèse de 1'Enfant Jésus. As a young girl she sang in the Paris streets, a tiny, birdlike creature who clasped her hands behind her and fixed her eyes on the heavens. A friend gathered...