FRANCE’S BEST CHANTEUSE ~ EDITH PIAF


Although Edith Piaf (Dec. 19, 1915-Oct. 10, 1963) was denied a funeral Mass by Cardinal Maurice Feltin because of her lifestyle, Edith Piaf’s funeral procession drew tens of thousands of mourners onto the streets of Paris, and the ceremony at the cemetery was attended by more than 100,000 fans. Charles Aznavour recalled that Piaf’s funeral procession was the only time since the end of World War II that he saw Parisian traffic come to a complete stop. On 10 October 2013, fifty years after her death, the Roman Catholic Church recanted and gave Piaf a memorial Mass in the St. Jean-Baptiste Church in Belleville, Paris, the parish into which she was born.


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