EDITH PIAF WAS BORN IN BELLEVILLE AND GREW UP IN MÉNILMONTANT
Do memories of La Commune explain her songs' intensity?
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Frank Sinatra grew up at about the same time in Hoboken,*
where the repression of strikes by the police and the Mafia seems gentle in comparison with that of La Commune:
* A working-class suburb of New York
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His songs' nonchalant elegance
reflect a society without tragedy (for whites):
Middle-class America has no equivalent to Piaf.
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