On October 28, 1949, Édith Piaf waited for Marcel Cerdan, her new love, who was supposed to join her by the Paris-New York flight. In vain because Marcel Cerdan never arrived, his plane had just crashed in the night over the Azores archipelago.A year earlier, on 21 September 1948, Marcel Cerdan had won the middleweight boxing world title by technical knockout against King of the KO, Tony Zale. On September 14, 1949, a few weeks before his death, she sang Hymne à l'amour at the Versailles, a New York cabaret. Following this second loss of a loved one, after that of her daughter, Édith Piaf b...

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