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32 “that little person”: Je suis partout, n.d., and Révolution nationale [July 15, 1944] quoted in Brierre, p. 55.
33 “that laugh”: Meurisse, p. 159.
34 “She knew that because”: Norbert Glanzberg quoted in Astrid Freyeisen, Chansons pour Piaf, p. 89.
35 “When Edith leaned”: Ibid., p. 82.
36 “What could I do?”: Ibid., p. 90.
37 “We were opposites”: Meurisse, p. 160.
38 “without any question”: Léo Ferré, in L’Eclaireur de Nice [March 1942], quoted in Duclos and Martin, p. 183.
39 “I’m worried”: EP to Glanzberg, Oct. 26, 1942, in Freyeisen, p. 94.
40 “Whatever people say”: Andrée Bigard, in Marchois, Edith Piaf: Opinions, p. 31; cf. Freyeisen, p. 85.
CHAPTER SEVEN • 1942–1944
1 “easy recipes”: Marie Claire, May 20, 1942, p. 12.
2 “Edith Piaf is coming”: T. Marval, in Marchois, Piaf: Emportée, p. 29; cf. Legrand-Chabrier in Le Nouveau Temps, Oct. 21, 1942: “Edith Piaf’s return to her adoring Paris public is the big event of the week,” n.p.
3 “all of Paris”: EP to Glanzberg, Oct. 11, 1942, in Freyeisen, p. 91.
4 “in the person”: Louis Terrentrov, in L’Auto, Oct. 30, 1942, in Marchois, Piaf: Emportée, p. 29.
5 “the best tour de chant”: Legrand-Chabrier, “Rentrée d’Edith Piaf à l’A.B.C.,” Le Nouveau Temps.
6 “a purity of intention”: Françoise Holbane, in Paris-Midi, quoted in Duclos and Martin, p. 192.
7 “She no longer looks”: Gustave Fréjaville, in Comoedia, Oct. 31, 1942, quoted in ibid., pp. 191–92. Fréjaville warned Piaf not to “push” her voice, whose capacity to touch the listener “[was] not in the volume of her sound but in the quality of her timbre.”
8 “I’m terribly afraid”: EP to Glanzberg, Nov. 27, 1942, in Freyeisen, p. 94.
9 “guide fish”: Madame Billy, La Maitresse de “maison,” pp. 111, 116.
10 “They all knew her”: Ibid., p. 115.
11 Piaf spent her whole life: Contet, letter, in Témoignages sur Edith et chansons de Piaf, p. 17.
12 “We writers”: Contet quoted in François Lévy, Passion Edith Piaf, p. 89.
13 “Her enthusiasm compensated”: Contet quoted in Duclos and Martin, p. 201.
14 “nuances of feeling”: Gustave Fréjaville, in Comoedia, in ibid., p. 197.
15 “What marvelous evenings”: Madame Billy, p. 115.
16 “She was very unstable”: Ibid., p. 117.
17 “She became the good”: Ibid., pp. 126–27.
18 “She was as beautiful”: Ibid., p. 127.
19 “She transcends herself”: Jean Cocteau, “Edith Piaf,” clipping, Jan. 2, 1947; reprinted in EP, Au bal, preface.
20 “his closest intimates”: Anon. quoted in Jean Cocteau, Journal, 1942–1945, p. 347.
21 “You have skillfully renewed”: Anon., “L’Art d’Edith Piaf,” n.d., in Marchois, Piaf: Emportée, p. 30.
22 “keep going to see”: Didier Daix, “Edith Piaf à ‘La Vie en Rose,’ ” Paris-Midi, May 11, 1943.
23 “like her daughter”: “Line Marsa chante avec la même voix et les mêmes gestes que sa fille, Edith Piaf,” La Semaine, May 9, 1942.
24 “petite Didou”: Line Marsa, aka Jacqueline Maillard, to EP, in Bonel and Bonel, p. 116.
25 “more upset than indifferent”: Madame Billy, p. 117.
26 “enough for several doses”: Ibid., p. 119.
27 “Every morning”: Manouche quoted in Bret, p. 52.
28 “I’m not a chanteuse réaliste!”: EP quoted in “Je n’aime pas les chansons réalistes,” Actu, June 20, 1943, in Duclos and Martin, pp. 201–2.
29 “but they could still”: Georges Bozonnat, “Sur le gril,” L’Appel, Aug. 26, 1943.
30 “Groomed and coiffed”: Contet quoted in Duclos and Martin, p. 220.
31 “He didn’t seem to feel”: Madame Billy, p. 118.
32 “Mademoiselle, that just isn’t done”: Ibid., p. 116.
33 “with her remarkable intuition”: Andrée Bigard, in Marchois, Edith Piaf: Opinions, p. 29.
34 “I don’t think it would be helpful”: EP quoted in H. D. Fauvet, “Edith Piaf va chanter pour les prisonniers,” Paris-Midi, Aug. 9, 1943.
35 “top-notch”: EP quoted in H. D. Fauvet, “Edith Piaf est revenue heureuse d’avoir fait des heureux,” Paris-Midi, Oct. 3, 1943.
36 “Ma chanson, c’est ma vie”: EP’s lyrics in H. D. Fauvet, “Edith Piaf est entrée à la Société des auteurs,” Paris-Midi, Jan. 13, 1944.
37 “It’s all I could find”: Robert Dalban, in Marchois, Edith Piaf: Opinions, pp. 80–81,