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Edith Piaf did, it appears, feel dissapointed about several things. The truly amazing diva of la chanson francaise craved a “normal” life, with young ones, “pretty blinds” and a biking winner for a husband, according to a volume of the girl appreciate emails released in France.

“You really have saved myself just with time. I’ve bound in Church that i shall never ever contact another windows of alcoholic beverages (whenever we marry),” Piaf blogged into the French pursuit bicycling champ, Louis Gerardin in 1952. She guaranteed to “transform” her existence and spoke of having kiddies, “pretty curtains and a lovely supper services”.

The characters, perhaps not the first Piaf like epistles to get published but extremely honest, consult with the familiar, uncompromisingly passionate vocals of the woman music. She produces of the girl adoration for Gerardin’s “beautiful legs” and “pretty rear”.

“No guy possess had me personally up to your,” she produces. She completes another page, orgasmically: “Je t’aimmmmmmmmmmmmmmmme” with 16 “m’s”.

On 13 April 1952, Piaf penned: “And this is what i’d like before you leave for America. Getting therefore worn out, therefore filled with appreciation, that I cannot have sex anymore for months but await my marvellous return to become along with you again such as your small animal canine.”

Piaf’s romance with Gerardin lasted at under a-year in 1951-52, a decade before she launched their most celebrated track, “Je Ne Regrette Rien” and 12 many years before her death.

Whenever she met the champ cyclist, the singer had gone severely off the rail. She had plunged into serious alcoholic beverages and drug abuse after the death in an airplane accident of their past partner, the boxer Marcel Cerdan. Lees verder →