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5 “There’s a new man”: “L’Aveu d’Edith Piaf: Cet Homme au piano,” Paris-Presse, Jan. 21, 1961, in Marchois, Piaf: Emportée, p. 119.
6 no longer cared for love: EP quoted in Duclos and Martin, p. 421.
7 “We were very close”: Dumont interview with the author, June 28, 2008. All subsequent quotations of Dumont are from this interview.
8 “If you want”: EP’s physician and EP quoted in Noli, Edith, p. 70.
9 “While I was racked”: EP quoted in Jean Noli, “Ses Confidences à France Dimanche,” France Dimanche, no. 3253 [2008], clipping, HVA. There is a similar account of this incident in EP, Ma vie, p. 68.
10 “It’s very hard”: EP quoted in Marchois, Edith Piaf: Opinions, p. 187. Raymond Asso wrote of Monnot, after her death, “She came late to all of her appointments but found the way to be early for the final one” (ibid., p. 188).
11 “I spent a tête-à-tête”: Coquatrix letter, n.d., quoted in Bonini, p. 481.
12 end of music-hall: Jean Noli, Piaf secrète, p. 218.
13 “He was too gentle”: Noli, Edith, pp. 106–7.
14 “Aren’t I lucky”: EP quoted in “Piaf: Voici comment mes secrétaires font fortune,” Paris-Jour, March 27, 1962, in Marchois, Piaf: Emportée, p. 120.
15 “Edith Piaf, are you happy?”: Cinq colonnes à la une, broadcast June 1, 1962.
16 “To be able”: EP quoted in G.P., “Tout recommence avec lui,” in Paris Match, Aug. 4, 1962, in Marchois, Piaf: Emportée, p. 120.
17 “the most dissimilar”: Alain Spiraux, in La Presse, Sept. 29, 1962, in ibid., p. 121.
18 “To attain this altitude”: Joseph Kessel quoted in Brierre, p. 152.
19 “her ravaged face”: Patrick Thevenon, “Victoire, victoire! Edith, tu as encore gagné,” La Presse, Sept. 29, 1962, in Marchois, Piaf: Emportée, p. 121.
20 “not only the love”: EP, Ma vie, p. 165.
21 “Her marriage”: Dumont quoted in Brierre, p. 152.
22 “You are a great artist”: Robert Sauleytis quoted in Duclos and Martin, p. 436.
23 “That Edith Piaf arranged”: François Brigneau, “Mme. Edith Piaf … avec nos regrets,” L’Aurore, Oct. 10, 1962, in Marchois, Piaf: Emportée, p. 121.
24 “the legendary singer”: “Edith Piaf and Théo Sarapo Wedding Video,” http://vodpod.com/watch/1611937-edith-piaf-and-theo-sarapo-wedding.
25 “and her remarkable voice”: Anonymous Swiss reporter cited in Bonini, p. 500.
26 “was extending the range”: André Brink, A Fork in the Road, pp. 161–62.
27 “that’s the basis”: Interview with EP and Théo Sarapo, Théâtre des Celestins, Dec. 22, 1962, www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLRH51OjmZs.
28 “To make you blind”: Anon., La Dernière Heure, quoted in Bonini, p. 511.
29 “I won’t do any harm”: Barrier quoted in Duclos and Martin, p. 438.
30 when Piaf was too ill: According to Dumont, Piaf’s relations with Sarapo were not sexual: “She was in a state in which a woman doesn’t want a sexual relation with a young man” (Bonini, p. 488).
CHAPTER SIXTEEN • 1963
1 “because you are”: EP, radio broadcast c. 1962, “Piaf/Documents, Télé,” MBA.
2 This new style: EP quoted in Noli, Edith, p. 148. Though less successful than other yé-yé stars, Christie Laume would go on to make three record albums.
3 “A newlywed”: A.S., in Marchois, Piaf: Emportée, p. 122.
4 “Edith loved to work”: Bonel and Bonel, p. 302.
5 “in stronger and better voice”: Robert Alden, “Piaf Triumphant in Paris Recital,” New York Times, Feb. 23, 1963, p. 8; this includes the quotation from Le Monde.
6 “Like Napoleon”: Philippe Bouvard quoted in Bonini, p. 514.
7 “You know”: EP quoted in Noli, Edith, p. 153. Piaf omitted Patachou, also a great success in the States at this time.
8 “Edith is using”: Ibid., pp. 150–51.
9 “Lille is a horrible memory”: Bonel and Bonel, p. 303.
10 “Nothing happens”: Vendôme, in Notes, no. 153, p. 81.
11 “My Edith”: JC to EP, April 25, 1963, in Paris Match, no. 758, Oct. 19, 1963, p. 70.
12 “Vacations are great!”: EP quoted in France-Soir, June 7, 1963, in Duclos and Martin, p. 443.
13 “The doctors”: Simone Margantin quoted in Noli, Edith, p. 192.
14 “I had the impression”: EP quoted in ibid., pp. 193–94.
15 “It doesn’t keep him”: EP quoted in Duclos and Martin,