The grave of singer Edith Piaf and the Gassion-Piaf family at Pere-Lachaise cemetery

The grave of Edith Piaf, stage name of Edith Giovanna Gassion, the most famous French singer of the 20th century, known as "the Little Sparrow of Paris." The black tombstone, decorated with fresh flowers, bears the inscription "Famille Gassion-Piaf" and also holds the remains of her father and last husband, Theo Sarapo. Piaf, born in 1915 in a working-class neighborhood of Paris and died in 1963, left immortal songs such as "La Vie en rose," "Non, je ne regrette rien," and "Hymne a l'amour." Her grave is one of the most visited in the cemetery, a pilgrimage destination for lovers of French chanson.

Edith Piaf, grave, Pere-Lachaise, singer, chanson, La Vie en rose, Paris