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entourage and members of the Order. Standing, left to right: Orlando Perrotta, Marc Bonel, Jacques Liébrard, (her guitarist-lover), and Albert Doss. Seated to Edith’s right is Danielle Bonel, and to her left is Lysanne Coupal, her secretary, whom she dismissed when she learned of Coupal’s affair with Liébrard. (illustration credit i2.12)

Piaf’s second recital at Carnegie Hall, January 13, 1957, when, despite severe bronchitis, she sang twenty-three songs in French and English for the three thousand spectators (illustration credit i2.8)

Flyer announcing Piaf’s third engagement at Carnegie Hall. (It had to be canceled when she collapsed from bleeding ulcers requiring repeated surgeries and a prolonged stay at New York’s Presbyterian Hospital.) (illustration credit i2.13)

Edith gathering wild-flowers in the fields during a period of convalescence in Dreux, 1958 (illustration credit i2.14)

Edith coaching her protégé-lover Félix Marten in her Boulevard Lannes apartment, with Michel Rivgauche at the piano, 1958 (illustration credit i2.15)

Edith feeding her new companion, artist Douglas Davis, whose portraits of her were used on her record covers, 1959 (illustration credit i2.16)

Sheet music for “Non, je ne regrette rien,” the song that brought Piaf back to life after her “suicide tour” (portrait by Douglas Davis)

Charles Dumont and Edith, Christmas 1960 (illustration credit i2.9)

Théo and Edith walking in the woods in Belgium, 1962 (illustration credit i2.17)

Mourners traversing Père Lachaise cemetery to reach Edith’s grave on October 14, 1963, the day of her funeral, when her cortege stopped traffic all the way across Paris. (illustration credit i2.18)