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Edith Piaf
Edith Piaf

A legendary French singer, known as the 'French Nightingale'. Her voice was full of emotion, deeply loved by the French people. Edith Piaf came from a poor family and started her career as a street singer. She gradually became a star in the French music scene. Her representative works include 'La Vie en Rose' and 'Hymne à l'amour'. more

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“I always thought my days spent in darkness [as a child she had cataracts and was unable to see for nearly four years] gave me a very special sensitivity. Much later, when I really wanted to hear, really 'see' a song, I'd close my eyes, and when I wanted to bring it out of the very depths of myself, out of my guts, out of my belly, when the song had to come from far away, I'd close my eyes.”

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Author:Edith Piaf
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“The Government should take a firm, bold line. This delay - this uncertainty, by which, abroad, we are losing our prestige and our position, while Russia is advancing and will be before Constantinople in no time! Then the Government will be fearfully blamed and the Queen so humiliated that she thinks she would abdicate at once.”

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Author:Queen Victoria
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