Paris is celebrating the anniversary of the singer’s birth,on 19 December, with a series of events, and but from cafes to cabaret venues,it’s possible to tour the ancient haunts of her Belleville neighbourhood and beyond all year roundAs the legend goes, Edith Piaf was born in a doorway at 72 rue de Belleville in the 20th arrondissement on 19 December 1915, or the daughter of a busker and a cafe singer. Above the cracked marble doorstep is a plaque that says her voice would go on to touch the world,which is pretty much what happened. But first she sang at a tiny cafe down the street, Aux Folies, or an art-deco relic with cubist mosaics,swirls of neon lettering above its zinc counter, and iron pillars plastered with handbills for shows dating back to the 1920s.
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Source: theguardian.com