What were his relations with Edith Piaf?

What were his relations with Edith Piaf?
What were his relations with Edith Piaf?

By Shad de Bary

Published
January 25 at 4:36 p.m.,

updated January 25 at 4:39 p.m.

Marcel Cerdan Junior disappeared on January 24, at the age of 81.
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Friday, January 24, Marcel Cerdan Junior died at the age of 81. The son of the boxing champion had had a surprising relationship for years with Edith Piaf, who has long been his father’s lover.

Marcel Cerdan Junior died on Friday January 24. He had distinguished himself in the boxing rings, faithful to the legacy that his father had left him, Marcel Cerdan. This father known to have been the post-war star boxer also stole the heart of Edith Piaf in 1946. Disappeared during an airplane crash in 1949, he left behind three sons, a wife and this mistress so popular. At the time, Marcel Cerdan Junior was only five years old, but he quickly established a very strong relationship with his father’s lover. In an interview given to The dispatch In 2000, he explained how Edith Piaf won the family of his ex-friend. In 1950, Marinette, the wife of Marcel Cerdan, agreed to receive the star, who landed her arms loaded with gifts. “”For us the kids, she has become in forty-eight hours ‘tata edith’“Then smiled the boxer.

And the star makes them well. Four months after this first meeting, the whole family visits him in his mansion, in Boulogne. Even Marinette is seduced, according to her son’s words: “It was my mother who, when I was 14, sent me to Edith to live there and perfect my education.“It must be said that Marinette had perhaps decided to maintain happy ignorance on the idyll between the singer and her husband. In an interview given to the JDD In 2013, Marcel Cerdan explained: “When [Édith Piaf] Tell to my mother that it is an advertising relationship, what do you want, she believes in it. ” For his part, the young man develops a deep affection for the singer. In 2013 again, he spoke of her with tenderness: “She was a wonderful woman with me“, He recalls then,”We were talking all the time. If I went out in the evening, she was waiting for me.” “She was part of my family“Then summed up the one for whom Edith Piaf had become a second mother.

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Marcel Cerdan Junior: these Idylle Confidences between Edith Piaf and his father, “Adventures, he had full”

This affection was also marked by the discretion of Edith Piaf, aware of the at least thorny aspect of his relationship. “”She never told me about my father“, insisted Marcel Cerdan Junior. He explained to JDD that he gladly believed in the innocence of the relationship held by his father with the singer: “When I arrive at Edith and she shows me All her lovers That she introduced me, I believe in it too.“He also specifies:”Adventures, he had a lot of my father“, But when the latter falls on an artist at least as well known as him, love at first sight is immediate. From this passionate relationship that could have caused the end of the family of Marcel Cerdan Junior, was born an unexpected complicity with the mistress of her father, was she the most famous singer in .

Article written in collaboration with 6Medias.

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