Did you know ? The meeting between Edith Piaf and Marcel Cerdan was organized by the singer’s clan

Sometimes you have to force fate to achieve its ends. This is what Edith Piaf and her team did on the famous July 7, 1946. After his victory in the boxing ring against Holman Williams, Marcel Cerdan went to a night out at a cabaret in the faubourg Montmartre, the Club of the five. It is in this place that the boxer does an encounter who will turn his life upside down. The newspaper The Parisian returned to this romantic story between two celebrities.

In this establishment where Marcel Cerdan came to celebrate his victory, Édith Piaf was present for a recital. Contrary to appearances, this meeting is not a sign of fate, “everything was edited by Piaf and his entourage” according to the words of Franck Roubaud-Abad, specialist in the life of the boxer. In the mind of the singer, “She wanted to meet Cerdan because the big star at the time is him and not her.” To better visualize the magnitude of Marcel Cerdan at this time “It was Zidane and Mbappé together.” Although the high-level athlete did not fall under the spell of the artist, Edith Piaf succeeded in bewitched. “What mattered to him was boxing and his friends, Piaf transformed him, dressed him, he who didn’t like it “ confided the specialist. For two years, it was the mad love between Edith Piaf and Marcel Cerdan. Until the day when a plane crash in 1949 took away the boxer forever. An idyll that ends in a terrible tragedy.

Édith Piaf and Marcel Cerdan: their passionate relationship

After this first meeting, many others follow … The two lovers, – Marcel Cerdan was married to Marinette Lopez who is waiting for her in Casablanca with her three children – having fun with the media and the photographers. It quickly becomes a game between them. So much so that when the boxer loses his title of European champion against the Belgian, Cyril Delannoit, Frank sunday written in One: “Piaf brings bad luck to Cerdan.” Following multiple rumors, Marcel Cerdan returned to Casablanca near his family. But the lovers meet very quickly in New York then in Morocco, where the singer ends up being invited to the couple’s home. Then in December 1949, Edith Piaf asked her beloved to join her once more in New York. Marcel Cerdan’s plane will never arrive at its destination. The sad news then reaches the Kid who decides to dedicate her concert to her: “Ladies and gentlemen, tonight, I’m singing for Marcel Cerdan.” Alcohol, morphine, attempted suicide … Edith Piaf is devastated.

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