[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.

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

[4] Composer Michel Breuzard also wrote music for her, and in 1966 she recorded several EP's and her first album.

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