PIAF Author:Simone Berteaut She sang with a passionate intensity that has never been matched. Yet her enthralling songs were but reflections of an intimate personal drama of dizzying triumphs and disastrous affairs, heady excitement and horrific excess, golden glory in the spotlight and gaudy scandal in the headlines. She was a legend with the poignant, haunting voice of... more » a nightingale, and the vital, vulnerable heart of a woman who could not live without love.« less