Edith Piaf
1915 – 1963
French

Singer. She was a master of emotion.

Contemporaries
1909–1943Simone Weil
Born 1927Simone Veil
1871–1945Paul Valéry
1881–1955Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
1847–1922Georges Sorel
1900–1944Antoine Saint-Exupéry
1936–2008Yves Saint-Laurent
1868–1918Edmond Rostand
1871–1922Marcel Proust
1920–2003Pierre Poujade
1856–1951Philippe Petain
1915–1968Thomas Merton
1908–1961Maurice Merleau-Ponty
1857–1939Lucien Lévy-Bruhl
Born 1928Jean-Marie Le Pen
1883–1945Pierre Laval
1859–1947Pierre Janet
1882–1944Jean Giraudoux
1869–1951André Gide
1858–1916Charles Foucauld
1926–1984Michel Foucault
1862–1921Georges Feydeau
1858–1917Emile Durkheim
1859–1935Alfred Dreyfus
1930–2004Jacques Derrida
Born c. 1941Régis Debray
1872–1956Curnonsky
1857–1926Émile Coué
1889–1963Jean Cocteau
1868–1955Paul Claudel
Born 1922Pierre Cardin
1913–1960Albert Camus
1924–2005Alain Bombard
1859–1941Henri Bergson
1915–1980Roland Barthes
Born 1934Brigitte Bardot
1917–2000Jacqueline Auriol
1896–1948Antonin Artaud
1918–1990Louis Althusser