Lot n° 89
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1000 - 1500
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PIAF, Edith (1915-1963), chanteuse et parolière française. - Lot 89
PIAF, Edith (1915-1963), chanteuse et parolière française.
L.A.S. "ta pupuce", to Yves Montand. Lausanne, March 1, 1945 [1946 from a pencil note]. 4 pp. in-4 on small squared paper.
Very long and beautiful letter from Piaf nostalgic for France. "[...] Hello my everything. If you only knew how happy I am that yours are in Paris so close to you, you think, when I saw you asking for your little mother, how it broke my heart, now I know that you are a little less alone and my heart feels more tranquil, [...].People are really stupid, not because it doesn't work, because we refuse people every night and I can't leave before my twelve or fourteen songs, but because life is slow, they don't react like we do, ah it is quite true that the French spirit exists, a finesse "even among the most stupid" that no country will ever have, although one becomes chauvinistic far from France, you can't know how beautiful our town is and despite its misfortunes it remains the most wonderful, as well as in beauty as in spirit and in taste, here it is beautiful but it doesn't vibrate. You were afraid that on my return I would be disorientated and that I would no longer find what I wanted to find there. My God reassure you, I'll be crazy with joy to find my beloved Paname, of which my beloved little mouth is a part. If you could only know how the hours pass slowly, it seems like they're going by on purpose, I'm going to end up dying by dint of waiting to say that when I come back it'll be spring, do you realize that? [...]. I feel I'm becoming an anarchist. It's better that I stop this insoluble problem for me, basically the only thing that matters in the world to me is you and your love, the rest I don't care, even singing, when you think about the few people who understand, it doesn't make you want to go on, you almost want to sing for yourself or for two or three people who really understand the
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