Null Edith PIAF (1915-1963). P.A.S.; 1 oblong page in-12 under a photograph (cou…

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Edith PIAF (1915-1963). P.A.S.; 1 oblong page in-12 under a photograph (countertype; 23 x 16 cm). "Thank you for giving me the joy of celebrating a "100th" at the Olympia! Edith Piaf".

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Edith PIAF (1915-1963). P.A.S.; 1 oblong page in-12 under a photograph (countertype; 23 x 16 cm). "Thank you for giving me the joy of celebrating a "100th" at the Olympia! Edith Piaf".

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Raymond ASSO (1901-1968) songwriter, lyricist, lover of Édith Piaf, whose career he launched. 9 L.A.S. and 3 L.S. "Raymond", Digne September-November 1939, to Germaine Sablon; 22pages in-4 or in-8 (some hotel headers), 2 envelopes. Interesting correspondence from the beginning of the war, haunted by the memory of his mistress Édith Piaf.[It was in 1936 that Raymond Asso launched the career of Piaf, for whom he wrote a few songs, and whose lover and impresario he became. Called up for military service in August 1939, Asso was soon replaced by a new lover, including Paul Meurisse. Here, Asso addresses his friend "Maimaine", the singer Germaine Sablon (1899-1985), companion of Joseph Kessel (whose Chant des partisans she later premiered)].On October 12, returning from Paris to Avignon, Asso confided his despair at Piaf's betrayal: "That shock knocked me flat. The night on the train, with all those dirty images chasing me... The search for the tears that wouldn't come [...] the memory of insults and cowardice [...] and this morning I have a broken body and an empty head. [...] La Môme Piaf doesn't have the right, does she, to kill both the author and the man. One must be enough for her! Everything suddenly comes back to me... a thousand ugly things, a thousand phrases, a thousand looks... What cowardice! I don't want to owe him anything! [...] Don't talk to her about me! I beg you not to! She has to come back on her own, on her knees... or not at all. [...] How cowardly a woman can be sometimes! But is it a woman?"... A few days later, he is ill: "That'll teach me to run like hell to surprise Monsieur Paul [Meurisse] in my bed... I was shivering that morning. Decidedly, this Piaf is a remarkable lucky charm (sic)"... Yet he has the will to take his mind off things, to think about other things - he asks about the projects of composers Léo Poll and Marguerite Monnot, constantly checks up on Jef (Joseph Kessel), talks about the premiere of his song Ma jolie France by Germaine Sablon and about his next show at the A. B.C. - but he doesn't get around to it.B.C. - but he always comes back to "la Môme Piaf", worrying about her at first; a worry tinged with regret: "Piaf... I can say 'my', all the hopes placed in her; all those moral sufferings [...] I was so close to seeing her succeed, I thought the game had been won... Plouf!"; "This poor kid, completely isolated, without friends, with weaknesses, is going to turn out badly perhaps [...] We had such a beautiful dream... this departure on September 7 for Brazil... the dresses, the costumes!"... As the weeks go by, he is no longer able to conceal his resentment: "What a mess she has made of me... She's trying to hurt me. She's mean"... "She's crazy!"; "And I don't give a damn about Piaf... "Oh, Oh! Be careful who you associate with, she told me""... "I'd like to make up for the few scornful lines the Môme wrote about Voilà. [...] What an idiot! [...] What's she complaining about, I told her. She has fame, youth and love. What's that? So"... The pain and despair of a man broken by grief is also apparent: "Piaf? My God, Maimaine, don't talk to me about her! [...] There are people at the front who are dying! There are people behind who die in another way! There's physical suffering and the other!"... A photocopy of a letter from Édith Piaf to Germaine Sablon is enclosed.

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