At the end of September 1935, Louis Leplee, manager of the cabaret Le Gerny's on the Champs Élysées met Édith Piaf singing between Avenue Mac-Mahon and rue Troyon in the Pigalle district in Paris. On 2 October 1935, he hired him for a week and gave him her artist's name la Môme Piaf (the Brat Sparrow). Piaf, the sparrow so frail in relation to her physical that contrasted so much with the power of her voice. She was so successful that he extended her contract until 6 April 1936, the day he was murdered. A Pigalle thug, knew of Édith Piaf, shot him in the head. She underwent 48 hours in cu...
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