Lyrics to
Milord (English) :
Come on Milord, sit down at my
table
It's cold outside
I know you very well but you never saw me
I'm
just a girl of the harbour, a shadow in the street
I met you yesterday
with your girl, a beautiful girl
With soft eyes but no heart
Today her
ship sailed away with her, for always
And now you are alone, too bad, she
didn't love you
Oh, come on Milord, sit down at my table
It's cold
outside
Look at me Milord, you never saw me
But what happens, Milord? You
cry! I'd never have believed it
Oh, come on Milord, smile at me
Sing
with me, dance with me
Bravo, Milord! Encore Milord!
Death and legacy
Piaf died of liver
cancer aged 47 at Plascassier, on the French Riviera,
on 11
October 1963[14][15] (according to some, 10 October[16] in
Paris). She had
been drifting in and out of consciousness for
several months.[8] It is said
that Sarapo drove her body back to Paris secretly so that fans would
think she
had died in her hometown.[1][12] She is
buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris next to her
daughter Marcelle, where her grave is among the most visited.[1]
Although she was denied a funeral
mass by the Roman
Catholic archbishop of
Paris because of her lifestyle,[12] her
funeral procession drew tens of thousands[1] of
mourners onto the streets of Paris and the ceremony at the cemetery was attended by more than 100,000 fans.[12][17] Charles Aznavour recalled that Piaf's funeral procession was the only time since the end
of World War II that
he saw
Parisian traffic come to a complete stop.[12]
The minor planet of 3772
Piaf, discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila
Georgievna Karachkina in 1982, is named after her.[18]
In Paris, a two-room museum is dedicated to her, the Musée
Édith
Piaf[12][19] (5
rue Crespin du
Gast).
La Vie En
Rose, a film about her life
directed by Olivier
Dahan, debuted at the Berlin
Film Festival in February 2007.
Titled La Môme in France, the film stars Marion
Cotillard in the role that won her the
Academy
Award for Best Actress (Oscar), as Piaf.
Dahan's film follows Piaf's life from early childhood to her death in
1963. David Bret's
biography, Piaf,
A Passionate Life, was re-released by JR Books to coincide with
the
film's release. Her love story with Cerdan was also
depicted on the big screen by Claude Lelouch in
the
movie Édith et
Marcel (1983) with Marcel Cerdan Jr. in the role of his father
and Évelyne Bouix portraying Piaf.
Édith Piaf | |
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![]() Harold Bride | |
Born | Édith Giovanna Gassion December 19, 1915 Belleville, Paris, France |
Died | October 11, 1963 (aged 47) Grasse, France |