Music: Marion Coutillard as Édith Piaf singing Non, je ne regrette rien
Non, je ne regrette rien ..................... No, I don't regret anything at all
Ni le bien qu'on m'a fait ...................... Nor the good that was given me
ni le mal, Tout ça m'est bien égal ............ Nor the evil. They’re all the same
Édith Piaf (1915— 1963) was a French singer and cultural icon who "is almost universally regarded as France's greatest popular singer." Her singing reflected her life, with her specialty being the ballads. Although she was denied a funeral mass by the Roman Catholic archbishop of Paris because of her lifestyle, her funeral procession drew tens of thousands of mourners onto the streets of Paris and the ceremony at the cemetery was attended by more than 100,000 fans.
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