piaf, 50 years after death, remembered by paris

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http://news.yahoo.com/50-years-paris-remembers-piaf-201117400.html;_ylt=A2KJ3CUSJ1ZS0TgAS6fQtDMD

"After the war, she faced accusations of having been a collaborator who had lived the drunken high-life while much of the city was starving.

But she escaped with her reputation intact, thanks in no small part to a story -- completely made-up according to Belleret -- about how she had helped French prisoners to escape from German prison camps by passing on fake papers during singing tours, or by allowing them to have pictures taken with them which they could later use to forge identity documents."

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Never cared much for her singing... Give me Barbara, Juliette Greco, Jacques Brel, Gainsbourg, etc any time and keep Piaf!

Saw her several times - including a show in the late 40s at the Paris ABC theater where she appeared on the same bill as Yves Montand and Les Compagnons de la Chanson - and thought she was quite unattractive. Also saw her near the end of her life with her companion Theo Sarapo. They were a pitiful sight!