[1] As a teenager, she suffered from a mental disorder, and for a time was confined against her will to a psychiatric hospital in Lyon.

Gribouille, as she was called since her school days, is French for naive and foolishly happy people.

She had a very androgynous appearance, and a deep voice, and Cocteau got her work singing in a cabaret.

Charles Dumont, who wrote many of Piaf's hits, also began writing songs for her.

[1] She joined many famous and historical figures buried in the Jewish Cimetière de Bagneux in Montrouge, southwest of Paris.