Edith Piaf, abandoned as a child, was largely raised in her paternal grandmother’s Normandy bordello, before earning a living in her teens as a street singer. Jean Cocteau, on the other hand ...

losing her only child, and later becoming addicted to drugs, booze, and younger men. “They all told me that Piaf was a strong woman,” Carrère says. “There is a story I love: one day Edith ...