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34 “You have to give”: Piaf and Moustaki quoted in Brierre, p. 132.
35 “a miracle”: EP quoted in France Dimanche, Jan. 6, 1958, in Duclos and Martin, p. 390.
36 “She’s made a marvelous comeback”: Barrier to JB, Jan. 23, 1959.
37 “She could breathe”: Georges Moustaki, “Madame Edith Piaf,” Humanité, Jan. 24, 1978.
38 “It’s over”: EP to Schoeller, Feb. 2, 1959, in Duclos and Martin, p. 396.
39 “Loulou, trouve-moi”: Barrier quoted in ibid.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN • 1959–1960
1 “Edith Piaf never lets you down”: Anon., “Edith Piaf, Queen of Hearts,” in Waldorf-Astoria Daily Bulletin, Feb. 24, 1959, MBA.
2 “it was as if homosexuality”: Danielle Bonel quoted in Bonini, p. 447.
3 “She’s indomitable”: Barrier to JB, Feb. 25, 1959.
4 Noir et blanc, March 6, 1959.
5 “Our little giant”: Chevalier, in Marchois, Edith Piaf: Opinions, p. 68.
6 “The greater”: “Devenue philosophe en convalescence Edith Piaf chantera à nouveau,” Libération, March 13, 1959, in Marchois, Piaf: Emportée, p. 99.
7 “Edith Piaf’s recent”: Jack Gould, “TV: ‘Springtime in Paris,’ ” New York Times, May 13, 1959, p. 71.
8 “She was very frail”: Darlene Davis Baker telephone interview with the author, May 29, 2009.
9 “There was so much love”: EP to Monnot, quoted in Paris-Journal, June 5, 1959, in Duclos and Martin, p. 401.
10 “What have you brought”: Paris-Journal, June 23, 1959, in Marchois, Piaf: Emportée, p. 100.
11 “that a man”: EP quoted in “Elle dit toujours: Ce n’est pas pour cette fois,” clipping [Dec. 1959], in ibid.
12 “exactly the kind”: EP to Georges Moustaki, read by Moustaki in Les Hommes de Piaf, film.
13 “fell literally”: Jean-Loup Dariel, in Le Figaro, July 12–13, 1959.
14 “It was unbearable”: Douglas Davis quoted in France Dimanche, Dec. 24, 1959, in Duclos and Martin, p. 404.
15 “a series of deaths”: EP quoted by Jean Noli, in France Dimanche, July 16, 1959, in ibid., p. 403.
16 “Her laughter”: “Elle dit toujours,” p. 100.
17 “This is how”: Hugues Vassal, interview with the author, March 1, 2008.
18 “abject beings”: Michel Rivgauche, in “Jean-Claude Brialy Raconte Edith Piaf,” Europe, vol. 1 (Aug. 1996), quoted in Brierre, p. 139.
19 “If I can’t keep singing”: EP quoted in Détective, Dec. 10, 1959, in Duclos and Martin, p. 407.
20 imagine not singing: Cinq colonnes à la une, broadcast Jan. 15, 1960.
21 “the novel of a life”: “Edith Piaf, le roman d’une vie,” Paris Match, Jan. 9, 1960, n.p.
22 “No more injections!”: EP’s notebooks are reproduced in Bonel and Bonel, pp. 178–80.
23 “There was a pas de deux”: Rivgauche, in Jean-Claude Labrecque’s film, 67 bis, boulevard Lannes, 1991, in Brierre, pp. 140–41.
24 “You gave me such joy”: Rivgauche to EP [c. May 1960], in Bonini, p. 459.
25 “the most beautiful”: EP quoted in “Piaf: L’amour? J’y crois toujours!,” Ici Paris, June 1–7, 1960, in Lévy, p. 175.
26 “It is hard to say”: In Duclos and Martin, p. 413.
27 “If I had to live”: EP quoted in Paris-Jour [Sept. 1960], in ibid., p. 415.
28 “My life changed”: Charles Dumont interview with the author, June 28, 2008.
29 “I always go”: Cinq colonnes à la une, broadcast Dec. 2, 1960. The last line of “Non, je ne regrette rien” translates as “It all starts with you.”
30 “your strong heart”: JC to EP, radio broadcast, Radio Lausanne [n.d.], MBA.
31 “At this sad time”: Bruno Coquatrix, “Programme Olympia,” in Marchois, Piaf: Emportée, p. 119.
32 “to be setting out”: Michèle Manceaux, “La Semaine, Piaf ressuscitée,” L’Express, Jan. 4, 1961, p. 33.
33 “I think it’s working”: For information in this paragraph, see Noli, Edith, pp. 48–50.
34 “I adore her”: Johnny Hallyday, in L’Hymne à la Môme, film.
35 “Edith was the lynch-pin”: Dumont interview with the author, June 28, 2008.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN • 1961–1962
1 “It wasn’t the dying woman”: Juliette Boisrivaud, “Le Double Miracle d’Edith Piaf,” in Marchois, Piaf: Emportée, p. 118.
2 “This powerful emotive”: Klein, Florilège, p. 239.
3 “More than ever”: Paul Carrière, in Le Figaro [c. Jan. 1961].
4 “a cliché”: Milton Bracker, “Miracle of the ‘Sparrow Kid,’ ” New York Times