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Édith Piaf

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Édith Piaf (19 December 1915 – 10 October 1963; nee Édith Giovanna Gassion) was a French singer, songwriter, cabaret performer and film actress noted as France's national chanteuse and one of the country's most widely known international stars. [1]

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Aaron Weinstein

Aaron Jacob Weinstein (born July 31, 1985) is a jazz violinist, mandolinist, and arranger.

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Academy Award for Best Actress

The Academy Award for Best Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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Air France

Air France (formally Société Air France, S.A.), stylized as AIRFRANCE, is the French flag carrier headquartered in Tremblay-en-France.

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Albert Préjean

Albert Préjean (27 October 1894 in Paris – 1 November 1979 in Paris) was a French actor, primarily in film.

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Atahualpa Yupanqui

Atahualpa Yupanqui (born Héctor Roberto Chavero; 31 January 1908 – 23 May 1992) was an Argentine singer, songwriter, guitarist, and writer.

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Autumn Leaves (1945 song)

"Autumn Leaves" is a popular song.

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Édith et Marcel

Édith et Marcel is a 1983 French film directed by Claude Lelouch.

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Belleville, Paris

Belleville is a neighbourhood of Paris, France, parts of which lie in four different arrondissements.

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Berbers

Berbers or Amazighs (Berber: Imaziɣen, ⵉⵎⴰⵣⵉⵗⴻⵏ; singular: Amaziɣ, ⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵗ) are an ethnic group indigenous to North Africa, primarily inhabiting Algeria, northern Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, northern Niger, Tunisia, Libya, and a part of western Egypt.

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Bernay, Eure

Bernay is a commune in the west of the Eure department about 50km from Évreux in northern France.

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Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots

"Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots" is a song by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.

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Boum sur Paris

Boum sur Paris, is a French comedy film from 1953, directed by Maurice de Canonge.

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Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves, throw punches at each other for a predetermined set of time in a boxing ring.

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Brothel

A brothel or bordello is a place where people engage in sexual activity with prostitutes, who are sometimes referred to as sex workers.

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Bruno Coquatrix

Bruno Coquatrix (5 August 1910, Ronchin, Nord – 1 April 1979) was mainly known as the owner and manager of the music hall Paris Olympia.

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Cabaret

Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama.

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Capitol Records

Capitol Records, Inc. is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint.

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Carlingue

The Carlingue (or French Gestapo) were French auxiliaries who worked for the Gestapo, Sicherheitsdienst and Geheime Feldpolizei during the occupation of France in the Second World War.

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Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall (but more commonly) is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east side of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Champs-Élysées

The Avenue des Champs-Élysées is an avenue in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, long and wide, running between the Place de la Concorde and the Place Charles de Gaulle, where the Arc de Triomphe is located.

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Chanson

A chanson ("song", from Latin cantio, gen. cantionis) is in general any lyric-driven French song, usually polyphonic and secular.

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Charles Aznavour

Charles Aznavour (born Shahnour Vaghinag Aznavourian, Շահնուր Վաղինակ Ազնավուրեան; 22 May 1924) is a French, later naturalised Armenian, singer, lyricist, actor, public activist and diplomat.

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Charles Dumont (singer)

Charles Dumont, born in 1929 in Cahors (Lot), is a French singer and composer.

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Claude Lelouch

Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch (born 30 October 1937) is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer.

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Collaboration with the Axis Powers

Within nations occupied by the Axis Powers in World War II, some citizens and organizations, prompted by nationalism, ethnic hatred, anti-communism, antisemitism, opportunism, self-defense, or often a combination, knowingly collaborated with the Axis Powers.

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Consciousness

Consciousness is the state or quality of awareness, or, of being aware of an external object or something within oneself.

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Daniel Nardicio

Daniel Nardicio (born August 8, 1966 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American producer, nightlife impresario, entrepreneur, and co-creator of the social network Dlist.com.

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David Bret

David Bret (born 8 November 1954) is a French-born British author of showbiz biographies.

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Django Reinhardt

Jean Reinhardt (or; 23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953) stage name Django Reinhardt, was a Belgian-born Romani French jazz guitarist, musician and composer, regarded as one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth century.

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Eddie Constantine

Eddie Constantine (born Israël Constantine; October 29, 1913 – February 25, 1993) was an American actor and singer who spent his career working in Europe.

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Edith Cavell

Edith Louisa Cavell (4 December 1865 – 12 October 1915) was a British nurse.

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Elaine Paige

Elaine Paige (born Elaine Jill Bickerstaff, 5 March 1948) is an English singer and actress best known for her work in musical theatre.

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EMI

EMI Group Limited (originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries and also referred to as EMI Records Ltd.) was a British multinational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.

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Essaouira

Essaouira (الصويرة; ⵎⵓⴳⴰⴹⵓⵔ, Mugadur), formerly known as Mogador, is a city in the western Moroccan economic region of Marrakesh-Safi, on the Atlantic coast.

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Flo Ankah

Flo Ankah is an actress, filmmaker, and singer from France residing in New York City.

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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Frankfurt General Newspaper), abbreviated FAZ, is a centre-right, liberal-conservativeHans Magnus Enzensberger: (in German).

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French Cancan

French Cancan is a 1955 French musical film written and directed by Jean Renoir and starring Jean Gabin and Francoise Arnoul.

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French popular music

French popular music is a music of France belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and mostly distributed commercially.

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French Resistance

The French Resistance (La Résistance) was the collection of French movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy régime during the Second World War.

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French Riviera

The French Riviera (known in French as the Côte d'Azur,; Còsta d'Azur; literal translation "Coast of Azure") is the Mediterranean coastline of the southeast corner of France.

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Georges Lacombe (director)

Georges Lacombe (1902 – 1990) was a French film director.

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German military administration in occupied France during World War II

The Military Administration in France (Militärverwaltung in Frankreich; Occupation de la France par l'Allemagne) was an interim occupation authority established by Nazi Germany during World War II to administer the occupied zone in areas of northern and western France.

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Ginette Neveu

Ginette Neveu (11 August 191928 October 1949) was a French classical violinist who was killed in a plane crash at the age of 30.

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Grammy Hall of Fame

The Grammy Hall of Fame is a hall of fame to honor musical recordings of lasting qualitative or historical significance.

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Grasse

Grasse (Provençal Grassa in classical norm or Grasso in Mistralian norm; traditional Grassa) is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department (of which it is a sub-prefecture), on the French Riviera.

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Guy Casaril

Guy Casaril (1933-1996) was a French film director, screenwriter and non-fiction writer.

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Henri Betti

Henri Betti, born Ange Betti (24 July 1917 – 7 July 2005), was a French composer and a pianist.

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Hymne à l'amour

"" (French for "Hymn to Love") is a popular French song originally performed by Édith Piaf.

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Il est né, le divin Enfant

"Il est né, le divin Enfant" (English: He is born, the divine Child) is a traditional French Christmas carol, which was published for the first time in 1862 by R. Grosjean, organist of the Cathedral of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, in a collection of carols entitled "Airs des Noëls lorrains." The text of the carol was published for the first time in a collection of ancient carols, published in either 1875 or 1876 by Dom G. Legeay.

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Institut national de l'audiovisuel

The Institut national de l'audiovisuel (or INA, French for National Audiovisual Institute) is a repository of all French radio and television audiovisual archives.

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Jacques Pills

Jacques Pills (7 January 1906, Tulle, France — 12 September 1970) was a French singer and actor, born René Jacques Ducos.

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Jean Cocteau

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, writer, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker.

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Jean de Limur

Jean de Limur (13 November 1887, Vouhé, Charente-Maritime - 5 June 1976, Paris) was a French film director, actor and screenwriter.

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Jean Renoir

Jean Renoir (15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author.

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Jezebel (song)

For "Jezebel" by Jon Stevens, see Jezebel (Jon Stevens song) "Jezebel" is a 1951 popular song written by Wayne Shanklin.

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Keratitis

Keratitis is a condition in which the eye's cornea, the clear dome on the front surface of the eye, becomes inflamed.

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Kim David Smith

Kim David Smith (born is an Australian Helpmann Award-nominated singer and cabaret performer, known for performing Weimar-era inspired works that juxtapose authentic musical material with stylistic takes on current popular tunes. His recordings include electropop albums Nova and Supernova, written by Charlie Mason, and released by Ninthwave Records. Smith's solo cabaret program "Morphium Kabarett" enjoyed an acclaimed 2016 residency at Pangea in the East Village, Manhattan. Smith studied Music Theatre at the Ballarat Arts Academy in Australia (BA, Music Theatre), and resides in New York City. In 2009 Smith was presented with the Back Stage Bistro Award for Special Achievement as an Outstanding Performer (honored alongside Liza Minnelli and Charles Aznavour). He was also nominated for 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 Manhattan Association of Cabaret (MAC) Awards in the Male Vocalist category. In 2015, he was invited to be part of the concert celebrating the 100th birthday of Édith Piaf at The Town Hall in New York City. Smith portrayed the Emcee in Hunter Foster's production of Cabaret at the Cape Playhouse in cape Cod, Massachusetts, in 2016, and played Salome in Tristan Divincenzo's production of Oscar Wilde's Salome at the Provincetown Theater in 2017. Smith is married since 2010 to tenor William Ferguson.

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L'Accordéoniste

"L'Accordéoniste" is a song made famous by Édith Piaf.

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L'Étoile de Kléber

L'Étoile de Kléber was a maison close (brothel) in Paris.

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L'Express

L'Express is a French weekly news magazine headquartered in Paris.

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La Foule

"La Foule" ("The Crowd") is a song sung by famed French singer Édith Piaf, released in 1957.

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La Garçonne (1936 film)

La Garçonne (The Bachelor Girl or The Flapper) is a 1936 French black-and-white film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Victor Margueritte.

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La Vie en rose

"La Vie en rose" was the signature song of popular French singer Édith Piaf, written in 1945, popularized in 1946, and released as a single in 1947.

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La Vie en rose (film)

La Vie en Rose (A literal translation of "La Vie en Rose" is "Life in Pink", a figurative reference to rose-colored glasses. La Môme)La Môme refers to Piaf's nickname "La Môme Piaf" (meaning "baby sparrow, birdie, little sparrow") is a 2007 French biographical musical film about the life of French singer Édith Piaf.

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Le Gerny's

Le Gerny's is the name of a former Parisian cabaret located at 54 rue Pierre-Charron, at the intersection with the, in the of the 8th arrondissement of Paris.

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Le Sphinx

Le Sphinx was a maison close (brothel) in Paris in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Les Compagnons de la chanson

Les Compagnons de la chanson were a French vocal group from Lyon, France, founded during World War II.

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Les Mômes de la cloche

"Les Mômes de la cloche" is a song which became the first studio recording made by Édith Piaf.

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Les trois cloches

"Les trois cloches" is a Swiss song written in French by Jean Villard Gilles.

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List of signature songs

A signature song is the one song (or, in some cases, one of a few songs) that a popular and well-established recording artist or band is most closely identified with or best known for, even if they have had success with a variety of other songs.

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Little Annie

Little Annie Bandez (also known as Annie Anxiety or Little Annie Anxiety Bandez) is a New York-born singer, songwriter, painter, poet, writer, performing and recording artist, pastor and stage actor.

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Livorno

Livorno is a port city on the Ligurian Sea on the western coast of Tuscany, Italy.

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Lockheed Constellation

The Lockheed Constellation ("Connie") is a propeller-driven, four-engined airliner built by Lockheed Corporation between 1943 and 1958 at Burbank, California.

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Louis Alphonse Gassion

Louis Alphonse Gassion (10 May, 1881 - 3 March, 1944) was a French circus performer and contortionist, with a background in theatre.

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Louis Leplée

Louis Leplée (April 7, 1883 in Bayonne, France – April 6, 1936 in Paris, France) was a French nightclub owner who discovered the French singer Édith Piaf singing on a Paris street corner in 1935.

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Loulou Gasté

Louis "Loulou" Gasté (18 March 1908 – 8 January 1995) was a French composer of several successful mélodies.

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Lyudmila Karachkina

Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina (Людмила Георгиевна Карачкина, born 3 September 1948, Rostov-on-Don) is a Russian astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.

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Marcel Blistène

Marcel Blistène, born Marcel Blitstein (3 June 1911 in Paris – 2 August 1991), was a French film director.

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Marcel Cerdan

Marcellin "Marcel" Cerdan (22 July 1916 – 28 October 1949) was a French Pied-Noir world boxing champion who was considered by many boxing experts and fans to be France's greatest boxer, and beyond to be one of the best to have learned his craft in Africa.

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Margaret Crosland (writer)

Margaret Crosland (born 17 June 1920) is an English literary biographer and translator.

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Marguerite Monnot

Marguerite Monnot (28 May 1903 – 12 October 1961) was a French songwriter and composer best known for having written many of the songs performed by Édith Piaf ("Milord", "Hymne à l'amour") and for the music in the stage musical Irma La Douce.

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Marilyn Maye

Marilyn Maye (born April 10, 1928) is an American cabaret singer and musical theatre actress.

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Marion Cotillard

Marion Cotillard (born 30 September 1975) is a French actress, singer-songwriter, musician, environmentalist, and spokesperson for Greenpeace who achieved international fame with the film La Vie en Rose (2007).

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Marlene Dietrich

Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich (27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) was a German actress and singer who held both German and American citizenship.

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Maurice Chevalier

Maurice Auguste Chevalier (September 12, 1888 – January 1, 1972) was a French actor, cabaret singer and entertainer.

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Maurice de Canonge

Maurice de Canonge (March 18, 1894 – January 10, 1979) was a French actor and film director.

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Maurice Feltin

Maurice Feltin (15 May 1883 – 27 September 1975) was a French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Ménilmontant

Ménilmontant is a neighbourhood of Paris, situated in the city's 20th arrondissement.

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Melissa Madden Gray

Melissa Madden Gray, stage name Meow Meow, is an Australian-born actress, dancer and cabaret performer who tours internationally.

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Meningitis

Meningitis is an acute inflammation of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord, known collectively as the meninges.

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Mikis Theodorakis

Michael "Mikis" Theodorakis (Μιχαήλ (Μίκης) Θεοδωράκης; born 29 July 1925) is a Greek songwriter and composer who has written over 1000 songs.

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Milord (song)

"Milord" or "Ombre de la Rue" ("Shadow of the Street") is a 1959 song (lyrics by Georges Moustaki, music by Marguerite Monnot), famously sung by Édith Piaf.

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Mon Dieu

"Mon Dieu" (my God in French) is a 1960 song by Édith Piaf.

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Mon légionnaire

"Mon légionnaire" is a French song introduced in 1936 by vocalist Marie Dubas, with lyrics by Raymond Asso and music by Marguerite Monnot.

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Montmartre (film)

Montmartre (French: Montmartre sur Seine) is a 1941 French romantic comedy film directed by Georges Lacombe and starring Édith Piaf, Jean-Louis Barrault and Roger Duchesne.

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Morphine

Morphine is a pain medication of the opiate variety which is found naturally in a number of plants and animals.

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Moulin Rouge

Moulin Rouge (French for "Red Mill") is a cabaret in Paris, France.

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Murazzano

Murazzano is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Cuneo in the Italian region Piedmont, located about southeast of Turin and about east of Cuneo.

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Musée Édith Piaf

The Musée Édith Piaf is a private museum dedicated to singer Édith Piaf located in the 11th arrondissement at 5, rue Crespin du Gast, Paris, France.

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Music of France

The music of France reflects a diverse array of styles.

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Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.

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Neuilly-sur-Seine

Neuilly-sur-Seine is a French commune just west of Paris, in the department of Hauts-de-Seine.

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New York Daily News

The New York Daily News, officially titled Daily News, is an American newspaper based in New York City.

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New York Herald Tribune

The New York Herald Tribune was a newspaper published between 1924 and 1966.

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Nine Boys, One Heart

Nine Boys, One Heart (French: Neuf garçons, un coeur) is a 1948 French musical film directed by Georges Friedland and starring Édith Piaf, Lucien Baroux and Marcel Vallée.

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Non, je ne regrette rien

"Non, je ne regrette rien" (meaning "No, I regret nothing") is a French song composed by Charles Dumont, with lyrics by Michel Vaucaire.

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Norbert Glanzberg

Norbert Glanzberg (12 October 1910 in Rohatyn, Austria-Hungary - 25 February 2001 in Paris, France) was a Galician-born French composer.

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Normandy

Normandy (Normandie,, Norman: Normaundie, from Old French Normanz, plural of Normant, originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is one of the 18 regions of France, roughly referring to the historical Duchy of Normandy.

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Olivier Dahan

Olivier Dahan (born 26 June 1967) is a French film director and screenwriter.

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Olympia (Paris)

Olympia (commonly known as L'Olympia, Olympia Hall or Paris Olympia) is a music hall located in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France.

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Padam, padam...

"Padam, padam..." is a song originally released in 1951 by Édith Piaf.

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Pam Gems

Pam Gems (1 August 1925 – 13 May 2011) was an English playwright.

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Paris Still Sings

Paris Still Sings (French: Paris chante toujours) is a 1951 French musical comedy film directed by Pierre Montazel and starring Lucien Baroux, Clément Duhour and Madeleine Lebeau with performances from a large number of leading French singers.

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Parlophone

Parlophone Records Limited (also known as Parlophone Records and Parlophone) is a German-British major record label founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company as Parlophon.

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Pathé Records

Pathé Records was a France-based international record company and label and producer of phonographs, active from the 1890s through the 1930s.

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Patrick Buisson

Patrick Buisson (born 1949 in Paris) is a conservative French historian, journalist and political advisor.

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Père Lachaise Cemetery

Cemetery (Cimetière du Père-Lachaise,; formerly,, "Cemetery of the East") is the largest cemetery in the city of Paris, although there are larger cemeteries in the city's suburbs.

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Piaf (play)

Piaf is a play by Pam Gems that focuses on the life and career of French chanteuse Edith Piaf.

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Pierre Montazel

Pierre Montazel (5 March 1911 - 8 September 1975) was a French cinematographer and screenwriter.

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Plascassier

Plascassier is located between Valbonne (2.8 km) and Grasse (7 km) and only 31 km away from Nice airport.

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Procuring (prostitution)

Procuring or pandering is the facilitation or provision of a prostitute or sex worker in the arrangement of a sex act with a customer.

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Quartier Pigalle

Pigalle is an area in Paris around the Place Pigalle, on the border between the 9th and the 18th ''arrondissements''.

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Raquel Bitton

Raquel Bitton (born in Marrakesh, Morocco) is a French singer, actress and playwright and foremost interpreter of songs by Edith Piaf.

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Raymond Asso

Raymond Asso (2 June 1901 – 24 October 1968) was a French lyricist.

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Raymond Souplex

Raymond Souplex (1 June 1901 – 22 November 1972) was a French actor and singer.

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Requiem

A Requiem or Requiem Mass, also known as Mass for the dead (Latin: Missa pro defunctis) or Mass of the dead (Latin: Missa defunctorum), is a Mass in the Catholic Church offered for the repose of the soul or souls of one or more deceased persons, using a particular form of the Roman Missal.

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Robert Osborne

Robert Jolin Osborne (May 3, 1932 – March 6, 2017) was an American actor, film historian, television presenter, and author, best known for more than twenty years as the primary host of the cable channel Turner Classic Movies (TCM).

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Royal Affairs in Versailles

Royal Affairs in Versailles (French title: Si Versailles m'était conté) is a 1954 French historical drama directed by Sacha Guitry.

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Sacha Guitry

Alexandre-Pierre Georges "Sacha" Guitry (21 February 188524 July 1957) was a French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright of the Boulevard theatre.

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Sanie cu zurgălăi

"Sanie cu zurgălăi" (Romanian for "Sleigh with bells") is a Romanian language song composed in 1936 by Jewish-Romanian composer Richard Stein.

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Shilha people

The Shilha people, also called Shluh or Chleuh, are a major Berber subgroup primarily inhabiting the southwestern mountains, Sous River, and southern coastal regions of Morocco.

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Sparrow

Sparrows are a family of small passerine birds.

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Star Without Light

Star Without Light (French: Étoile sans lumière) is a 1946 French drama film directed by Marcel Blistène and starring Édith Piaf, Marcel Herrand and Jules Berry.

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Stephen Holden

Stephen Holden (born July 18, 1941) is an American writer, music critic, film critic, and poet.

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Street performance

Street performance or busking is the act of performing in public places for gratuities.

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Thérèse of Lisieux

Saint Thérèse of Lisieux (Sainte-Thérèse de Lisieux), born Marie Françoise-Thérèse Martin (2 January 1873 – 30 September 1897), also known as Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, O.C.D., was a French Catholic Discalced Carmelite nun who is widely venerated in modern times.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Ed Sullivan Show

The Ed Sullivan Show was an American television variety show that ran on CBS from June 20, 1948, to June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Town Hall (New York City)

The Town Hall is a performance space, located at 123 West 43rd Street, between Sixth Avenue and Broadway, in midtown Manhattan New York City.

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Theophanis Lamboukas

Theophanis Lamboukas (26 January 1936 – 28 August 1970), better known as Theo Sarapo was a French singer and actor, and the second husband of the French singer Édith Piaf.

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Torch song

A torch song is a sentimental love song, typically one in which the singer laments an unrequited or lost love, either where one party is oblivious to the existence of the other, where one party has moved on, or where a romantic affair has affected the relationship.

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Virgil Thomson

Virgil Thomson (November 25, 1896September 30, 1989) was an American composer and critic.

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Vivian Reed (musical theatre actress)

Vivian Reed is an African-American actress and singer.

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Viviane Romance

Viviane Romance (July 4, 1912 – September 25, 1991) was a French actress.

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Warner Music Group

Warner Music Group (WMG, also referred to as Warner Music or WEA International) is an American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate headquartered in New York City.

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What Can I Do? (Edith Piaf song)

Mais qu'est-ce que j'ai ? is a French popular song composed in 1947 by Henri Betti with the lyrics by Édith Piaf.

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Yves Montand

Ivo Livi, better known as Yves Montand (13 October 1921 – 9 November 1991), was an Italian-French actor and singer.

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16th arrondissement of Paris

The 16th arrondissement of Paris (XVIe arrondissement) is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France.

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18th arrondissement of Paris

The 18th arrondissement of Paris (XVIIIe arrondissement) is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France.

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1949 Air France Lockheed Constellation crash

The 1949 Air France Lockheed Constellation crash on 28 October 1949 happened when a Lockheed L-749A-79-46 Constellation of Air France crashed into a mountain while attempting to land at Santa Maria Airport, Azores on a stopover during a scheduled international passenger flight from Paris-Orly Airport to New York City.

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20th arrondissement of Paris

The 20th arrondissement of Paris (XXe arrondissement) is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Édith_Piaf

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