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26 “because I am passionately”: EP, “Demande d’affiliation à l’AMORC,” April 12, 1955, AMORC.
27 “a joie de vivre”: Anon., 1955, quoted in Bonel and Bonel, p. 249.
28 “When I come back”: EP to JB, Aug. 23, 1955.
29 “It was a time”: Bonel and Bonel, pp. 66–67.
30 “peace that is profound”: “profound peace” is a form of greeting and the aim of life for Rosicrucians.
31 Piaf’s repertoire: Piaf recorded both “Soudain, une vallée” and “L’Homme à la moto” on January 3, 1956, at the Capitol Studios in New York.
32 “She’s a moving bundle”: Maurice Chevalier, Ma Route et mes chansons, vol. 7, 1957, in Duclos and Martin, p. 354.
33 “I’ll come home”: EP to JB, Nov. 17, 1955.
34 “a stark mood”: Howard Taubman, “Music,” New York Times, Jan. 5, 1956, p. 25.
35 “Edith had already noticed”: Bonel and Bonel, p. 67.
36 “She always needed someone”: Barrier quoted in Duclos and Martin, p. 351.
37 “I’m caught”: EP to JB, Feb. 12, 1956.
38 “so I can listen”: EP to Jacques Pills, Feb. 21, 1956, BMD.
39 “I found a marvelous country”: EP interviewed on Music-Hall, June 1956, in Duclos and Martin, p. 359.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN • 1956–1959
1 “I was scared”: EP quoted in France Dimanche, July 1956, in Duclos and Martin, p. 361.
2 “It was galvanizing”: Guillaume Biro quoted in Bonini, p. 387.
3 “the image of a separation”: L’Aurore, June 7, 1956, in Marchois, Piaf: Emportée, p. 95.
4 “We reached this decision”: Quoted in Duclos and Martin, p. 362.
5 “to show that existentialist”: Aznavour quoted in Duclos and Martin, p. 323.
6 “in which the slightest exaggeration”: Gilles Ravon, in Figaro littéraire [1956], quoted in Bonini, p. 389.
7 “She had that effect”: Marc Bonel quoted in ibid.
8 “something I’ve never had”: EP to JB, Oct. 5, 1956.
9 “It helped her”: Bonel and Bonel, p. 218. See also Bourgeat’s reply to Piaf’s request and account of Rosicrucianism (pp. 219–23).
10 “a sort of confusion”: EP to JB, Jan. 3, 1957.
11 “I didn’t bring”: EP quoted by Danielle Bonel, in Duclos and Martin, p. 365.
12 her best songs: English versions of “Les Amants d’un jour,” “Miséricorde,” “Heureuse,” and Asso’s “Un Jeune Homme chantait.”
13 “I had the worst”: EP quoted in Duclos and Martin, p. 366.
14 science of Spiritism: Kardec, the pseudonym of the French teacher Hippolyte Rivail (1804–69), was known for such works as The Spirits’ Book, The Book on Mediums, and The Gospel According to Spiritism.
15 “study spiritual science”: EP to JB, Feb. 16, 1957.
16 “Paname”: EP to JB, May 29, 1957.
17 “She was seeking”: Bonel and Bonel, p. 224. Bonel alludes to the “profound peace” of Rosicrucianism.
18 “After Jacques”: EP, Ma vie, p. 81.
19 “you’re in charge”: EP, March 19, 1958, quoted in Duclos and Martin, p. 373.
20 “an ear-splitting sound”: Claude Sarraute, in Le Monde, Feb. 8, 1958, in Marchois, Piaf: Emportée, p. 97.
21 “the triumph of art”: Ibid.
22 “He should sing”: EP, radio program, Feb. 16, 1958, in Duclos and Martin, p. 378.
23 “Like so many”: Danielle Bonel quoted in Bonini, p. 410.
24 “She was a healthy woman”: André Schoeller quoted in ibid., pp. 415–16.
25 “Thanks to this”: Hugues Vassal, Dans les pas d’Edith Piaf, pp. 57–58.
26 “the Sunday crowd”: EP quoted in Paris-Presse [April 1958], in Bonini, p. 406.
27 “She wasn’t an addict”: Barrier quoted in ibid., pp. 407–8.
28 “I was fascinated”: Georges Moustaki, Les Filles de la mémoire, p. 67.
29 “Edith Piaf Gravement Malade?”: Noir et blanc, June 13, 1958. A reference on the cover to an article about a nun who left her order because she fell in love underscores the Piaf photo’s “spiritual” side, an aspect of her persona emphasized by the weekly, which also ran an article on her career entitled “Trente ans de succès ont épuisés les forces d’Edith Piaf” (pp. 384–85).
30 “It was not exactly”: Richer, p. 66.
31 “If one day”: EP quoted in France Dimanche [June 6, 1958], in Duclos and Martin, p. 385.
32 “ ‘Milord’ was typical”: Moustaki, in Notes, no. 153, 1998, pp. 69–70.
33 “of knowing how”: Moustaki interview with the author, June