French Singer Edith Piaf - by Marilyn Stafford
French singer Edith Piaf ‘’The little Sparrow’’ in Paris 1950. Édith Giovanna Gassion, born in December 1915, one of France’s most beloved singers, photographed in Paris during the 1950’s. Piaf, slang for Sparrow was a nickname she received in her twenties. Édith Piaf was a hugely successful French singer who had a colourful career which began with her father where she performed all over France as an acrobat and began her singing career.